Shut the phone and stay disciplined: Jaspal to his young shooters

"Shut the phone and stay away from social networking," India's junior shooting coach Jaspal Rana Tuesday advised his wards, urging them to follow in the footsteps of Abhinav Bindra and not take "things for granted".

The multiple Asian Games gold-medallist spoke after the trailblazing Manu Bhaker, seeking an Olympic quota place, fizzled out in the qualifications of the women's 10m air pistol event of the ongoing ISSF World Cup.

Having failed to finish on the podium in the 25m pistol too, Bhaker will now have to wait until the next World Cup in Beijing.

"Those who are disciplined and those who don't indulge in anything else, they are the ones who are doing well," Rana said.

"We need to look after the shooters well because this is the first step, getting quota places is not difficult, but we are talking about Olympics now. We have enough competitions till the end of this year and we will have a good number of quota places."
"Ultimately, it's the country's loss, not NRAI President's, Jaspal Rana's or the shooters' loss."
"Not people around them, just leave them alone. In our time there was no distraction. Now you have two-three phones, friends coming over, you having a good time so I think the difficulty level is more now because of too many distractions."
"It's about your lifestyle, what you eat, what time do sleep, what you eat in the morning, what time you get up, what yoga you do, mental training and physical training you do."
"The kind of dedication and discipline the Chinese have we don't have. We are staying in the same hotel where there is a party every night and everybody is invited to attend that. Why?