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.

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

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

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

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.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

You cant go on winning all the time.

Self-pity never leads to happiness.Remind yourself that the situationmay not be ideal, but it’s rarely theworst that could ever happen.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

But by the grace of God I am what I am

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.