Jahangir Khan Quotes

• You can’t go on winning all the time.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

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Jahangir Khan (16)

Birth:	10th December, 1963
Nationality:	Pakistani
Profession:	Squash Player

About

Jahangir Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan who is considered to be the greatest player in the history of squash. During his career he won the World Open six times((1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988) and the British Open a record ten times. During that time he won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records. He served as President of the World Squash Federation from 2002 to 2008.

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