If I were to tell you, how will they remain strategies(laughs)? Ours is a very simple strategy. I will take my team to the field and then instill in them the desire to win. And just as you saw in Chak De! India, we will come out victorious.

The Indian Hockey team failed to qualify for the Olympics. How did you take the news?

I woke up at three am along with my son, and together, we watch the entire match. After 35 minutes, when the score was 2-0 in favour of England, I had this feeling that the Indian team will surely do something in the second half. But the English team were technically sound.

However, the thing that pained me the most was the headline -- National game, national shame -- in all the newspapers and news channels. We should not burden sportsmen with such things. Everyone plays a match to be victorious and I want to instill the same feeling in my team. A sportsman should never be pressurised.

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