“When you go out on the field, you don't go out to make friends... I pl...” — Gautam Gambhir Quote

“When you go out on the field, you don't go out to make friends... I play to win the game and not just to compete.”

“I am happy to lose spots on the IPL Fairplay award list, but I cannot see my team slipping on the points table.”

“When I am captaining a side, the way I play would be the way my team plays as well. If I will be joking around all the time, I wouldn't expect people to take me seriously.”

“I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.”

“There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.”

“My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.”