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What is your favourite quote / para from a book you have read?

Some of my favorite quotes from the bookBindra, Abhinav; Rohit Brijnath.A Shot At History : My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold

  1. Unlike many sports, here perfection is not elusive, it is, in fact, a requirement.
  2. I have to make my life difficult, break it down into minute detail and master each part.
  3. Only sport can do this to you, strip you naked in an instant in public, step on your dreams, make four years of practice incidental.
  4. In our world, even hitting the bullseye isn’t enough. We have to hit a particular part of the bullseye, we have to exist on the very edge of perfection.
  5. You have to stretch yourself to the limit and leave very little to chance. Only then does reward arrive.
  6. Let me explain. My trigger is sensitive, it takes just 30 grams of pressure to set it off. Almost to the point where, if a platoon of arguing bees sat on it, it will fire. But I have enough control in my finger to pull it back 20 grams and then hold it, hold it, hold it, and then exert a little more to fire, as gently as a butterfly’s breath. It’s cool.
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