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Jai Ganesh

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Bubble Quotes

Bubble Quotes

1. I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. - Boris Becker

2. As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score. - Ben Stokes

3. Being in a Covid bubble, you are going to need your family with you. It helps you stay sane. Four or five days in, you start to get a little bit of cabin fever. You need your family to take some of that pressure off you. - Jofra Archer

4. I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else. - Rahul Dravid

5. I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it. - Emma Watson

6. Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble. - Michael Phelps

7. When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else. - Viswanathan Anand

8. I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive. - Clint Eastwood

9. I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble. - Pierce Brosnan

10. I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser. - Kate Moss

11. Ventilation is needed to ensure we get air disbursed throughout the Station. Air stagnates without flow, so it is essential to have good ventilation so one doesn't end up in a bubble of CO2 by accident and then not be able to breathe. - Sunita Williams

12. Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that. - Alastair Cook

13. We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go. - Andrew Strauss

14. When I glare, I don't see it as aggression. I have just got such passion to get wickets. I don't ever say anything, I just have a look and see if I can get their mind concentrating on other things and get them outside their bubble. I like to get them switched on, have a look and get in a bit of a battle. - Stuart Broad

15. There's two extremes in male sport: there's complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge problems at either end. And it creates distance, too, and leads them into a bubble. - Ellyse Perry

16. At the end of the day, human beings are social people. If you have had a bad day, there is no escape when you are in a bubble. - Jofra Archer.

 

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