Pakistani Quotes

You can't go on winning all the time.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.