"I live a boring and monotonous life..." Yet Sunil Chhetri does the most incredible things. Here's how... ⚽️ 🐐
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00:00Life is very very boring and monotonous
00:02but to reach where I've reached and to do it every day
00:05that monotonous life is important
00:07Now our profession, it's not only mental
00:09but you can't take liberties with your food
00:10with your sleep, with how much you what are your drinks
00:12everything has to be perfect if you want to stay here
00:14The biggest motivation is I love sports
00:32I love football
00:33People who know me know this about me
00:34I can go and play cricket
00:35I can go and play badminton
00:36If there's a sport, I'm there
00:39You want to play
00:40You don't like the way I play though
00:41because I'm really feisty
00:43but you call me for a chess
00:44you call me for a badminton, indoor game
00:46whatever, I'm there
00:47I'm built that way
00:48and I've enjoyed my life that way
00:50If there is sports, if there is live sports, I'm there
00:52You'll be shocked, a lot of games that I can play
00:54So that drives me
00:56I want to keep playing
00:57and the highest level that I can play in football is this
01:01and if I don't do the things to take care of my body
01:04I will not be a part of this
01:06So I think the feeling that this is going to end soon
01:09and there'll come a time where I won't be able to compete
01:11really drives me
01:13So my life is very, very boring and monotonous
01:16but to reach where I've reached and to do it every day
01:19that monotonous life is important
01:21That's the only way
01:22When I say monotonous
01:24I eat the same thing
01:25I sleep at the same time
01:26I take my nap at the same time
01:28Can you talk about your day?
01:30On a normal day, I'll get up at 6
01:31or 5.30, 6 in between
01:33Sometimes I do not need an alarm
01:35because the body clock
01:36Otherwise, 6 o'clock I get up
01:38It's boring, some of you can take your tea break or whatever
01:42I'll drink two glasses of warm water
01:44I will do 50 push-ups and I will read
01:46I try to read 15 pages
01:47If what I'm reading is interesting, I'll go a little bit more
01:50Then I do three Surya Namaskars
01:52Then at 7, after one hour, I start getting ready
01:54My driver comes at 7.30
01:56My reporting time at training is 8.15
01:58I board my car at around 7.45
02:02Depending on what kind of training
02:04I will either skip breakfast or have breakfast
02:06I'll take a black coffee, go to training, train, come back
02:08My lunch will be ready
02:09My lovely wife and the cook, they know it
02:11At 12.30, I'll have lunch
02:13Then I'll speak to my wife
02:14because she'll have 20,000 questions to talk about
02:18Then she will open up, whatever she wants to say
02:19This, this, this, this
02:20At about 1.30, 2, I'll retire, I'll take a nap
02:23I try to make it 45 minutes only
02:25Sometimes I take liberties
02:27because I'm Sunil Chetri
02:29But then I'll get up at 3
02:31I get up at 3 and then I give my undivided attention to my wife
02:34Then we'll chat, we'll discuss, we'll talk normal stuff
02:36At around 4, 4.30, we'll have our evening session
02:39either at the club or I'll go to the gym
02:41I come back at 6, get showered before 7, I'll have my dinner
02:45From 7 to 9, it's the wife's choice
02:47She wants to watch Netflix
02:49She wants to put some music
02:51She wants to go out
02:52I agree once in a while
02:54At 9, 9.30, I request her
02:56that we go into the bedroom, no phones
02:58And of course, she denies every time
03:00because her fingers are going to go someday for Instagram
03:03I tied all this really like this
03:059.30, I request her, no lights in the room
03:09but she'll wait for me to sleep
03:10She'll not admit to it
03:11but when I sleep, she'll turn the other side and she'll do her Instagram
03:1510, 10.30, 11, max, I'm out
03:17I get up at 6.30
03:18This is practically every day of my life
03:19It's a very boring job
03:21But the more...
03:22Biggest example, Cristiano Ronaldo
03:23You look at him and you know this guy is mad
03:26because otherwise, it's not possible
03:28In sports generally, because it's about your mind and your body
03:31In our profession, it's not only mental
03:34but you can't take liberties with your food, with your sleep
03:36with how much water you drink
03:37Everything has to be perfect if you want to stay here
03:40Otherwise, a lot of players come
03:41They come, they come
03:43He was good, he played for 2 years and then he left
03:45Oh, he was good
03:46Yeah, 3 years he played, gone
03:48But if you want to sustain
03:50and the biggest success you will only get if you sustain
03:53Ronaldo is only Ronaldo because he has played 20 years
03:56You know what I mean?
03:57Messi is only Messi because he has played
03:58You play one year, good
04:00Nobody is going to talk to you after 20 years
04:01Oh, you know what?
04:02That guy, what a player he was, no
04:05To have an exponential growth, you got to sustain there
04:08Some days are not going to be good
04:10Some days, your skill is not going to work
04:12Some days, you're going to be shit
04:13Some days, you're going to miss an open goal
04:15Some days, you're going to be battered, abused
04:17You just keep going
04:18And the ones who keep going for a longer period of time
04:21are the ones who are going to enjoy expressing their skills
04:25If you finish in just one year
04:26then what you had inside, you didn't show it
04:28Now it's over, right?
04:29And the race is so fast now