I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

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