“It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.”

“Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.”

“Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.”

“I wish that I had been born a man, then I wouldn't be the boy that I am.”

“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far....”

“I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.”