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Let me start by saying that my first challenge was cricket.

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I was nine years old when I decided to become a test cricketer.

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I watched my older cousin Javed Burki scoring a century

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at what should not be called Gaddafi Stadium now --

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(Laughter)

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and I remember I made up my mind that I would be a test cricketer.

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Never after that, did I ever think that there was any possibility

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that I would not become a test cricketer,

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it was only a question of when.

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So along the way, there were a lot of problems which

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I hadn't foreseen at the time when I decided to become a test cricketer.

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But the thing about achieving the impossible is --

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It's a question of handling the bad times.

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Because whenever you have a big goal or you take the untrodden path,

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be prepared that you're going to have some bad times.

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You will face setbacks, there will be failures

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but the people who actually win in the end,

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have this quality -- number one -- they never give up.

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You only loose when you give up.

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And secondly, they have the ability to cope with the bad times.

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Now my first bad time came when I played my first test match,

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I was dropped and when I came back the headline was "Imran Khan't".

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(Laughter)

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And I didn't play for the next three years, I was out of the team

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and everyone thought that that was it.

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But then I made my way back in the team

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but the first shock I received, which I am telling you --

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the bigger the goal, the more shocks you are going to have,

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the more setbacks, the more failures you should expect.

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So I played my first test at Lahore

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and I am walking out to bat

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and the right side, through the pavilion,

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there's a whole -- from right and through the hall,

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the whole Lahore was sitting there.

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All along the way as I walked to the middle

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and remember it's 70 yards to the middle,

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all 70 yards it was cheering Lahore and "long live" the Lahore cheered, and so on.

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And wonderful noise all the way I walked to the wicket.

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But unfortunately in cricket you have something which no other sport has --

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you can be out the first ball.

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And that's what happened.

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So now 70 yards back -- the same crowd --

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(Applause)

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There are ladies sitting here

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so I will not tell you what they actually said to me.

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But I am telling in Lahore Punjabi, what I went through the 70 yards back,

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it might have been 70 miles I was walking.

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Anyway, I came back and I was in a shock.

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I said, "How can the same people who were just calling me lion,

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how could have they turned around and be saying

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all those things they've said to me?"

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And [it took] quite a while to get over it.

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But then over the years, I got used to it.

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The other big time I can [tell about] was --

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the sort of defeat that was very difficult,

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it was the first time we toured India and we lost.

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Now imagine that we've lost the series

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and we are flying off to Pakistan the next day.

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There is a team meeting going on.

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What is the team meeting [about]?

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How can we arrive in Lahore when everyone is asleep?

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(Laughter)

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So we came on a flight that arrived at 4 am in the morning.

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The custom people kept us there for three hours,

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until there was light

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and everything was confiscated, I still remember it.

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Everything we had -- this is India, in those days

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the custom laws were much more strict.

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So everything was taken away from us by the custom official

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and for days we couldn't go out of our houses.

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The players had to hide in their houses, really,

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because the sort of anger the public felt.

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And the other setback I can tell you [about was] when I contested my first election.

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Our party was only five months old.

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I kept telling -- I was roaming around, everyone was due,

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there's doctor Alvi sitting there,

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they were all founding members of Tehreef-e-Insaf.

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So we had just formed this party, all well-meaning people

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wanting to do good in Pakistan, but with no experience in politics.

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So I went around campaigning everywhere

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and I saw a lot of people turned up. But, during the campaign,

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I realized clearly a five-month old party cannot contest elections.

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So our idea was that we would just go all over Pakistan,

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take the agenda of corruption to the people --

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that corruption is the number one issue in Pakistan,

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and then just before the election we withdraw.

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So of course I was all prepared and quite enjoying my tour

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thinking that we are not going to contest election

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and loving all this sort of first time, going all over Pakistan.

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As I came back, about ten days before the election,

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we had a meeting, and we sat down

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and I said, "Look, now it's perfect, the party is all over Pakistan,

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we've got candidates all over the country, best time now

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to say that we boycott because at the time

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the match was fixed.

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So we thought,

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"We are not going to win anyway. Best time to leave!"

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Of course, my team overruled me.

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They said, "No! We are going to win the election!",

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because they had no idea what elections were.

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I warned them, I said, "Look, you know this could be a big disaster."

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And they had no idea what elections were -- all new people.

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So of course, the polling night,

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Tehreek-e-Insaf has a clean sweep, the other way around --

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not one seat. (Laughter)

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Anyway, by this time, I am conditioned,

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I am conditioned to seeing ups and downs.

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So I had exactly developed the mechanism to cope with failure.

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First thing you do is, don't read the newspapers. (Laughter)

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What is the point of reading the newspapers

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when you know whatever is going be written

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is not going to be complimentary.

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Secondly, do not go to any public functions

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because when you go to a public function,

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you will get plenty of advice, because advice is free

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but the only problem is, the advice you get when you've lost,

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it's like rubbing salt on your wounds.

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So [the] best is to avoid people.

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Number three, try and go away somewhere where there's no one,

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like go to the Karakorum for a treking holiday,

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best time to be with the family.

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But the problem is, when you have a sound thrashing,

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failure has its own dynamics.

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What it does is, you will find that even your close friends

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view you differently, even they change their view.

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So if you expect all of this,

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then you can deal with failure very well

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because what failure does is something invaluable --

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it gives you time for soul searching.

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It enables you to analyze your mistakes.

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It is the one time when you can learn.

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Failure can be the best teacher --

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provided you do not get demoralized by failure.

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If you get demoralized, you've lost.

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If you can assess and analyze your mistakes,

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it is a stepping stone to moving higher.

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All the people who I knew over my life who are successful

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have one quality, they could handle failure

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and they had the best analysis,

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they were the best critics of themselves.

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And if you have this ability --

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and this is really what education should do,

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it should give you the ability to analyze yourself very well --

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that is the time [when] you work to eliminate your mistakes

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and you get stronger.

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So the secret of success is that,

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each time you have a setback

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-- and remember the higher the goal, the more the setbacks --

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each time you analyze,

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work hard to eliminate the mistake in anything you do,

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and then you can move forward.

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The biggest problem when you have a setback,

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is that there is a big temptation to scale down your dreams,

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to scale down your ambition,

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to suddenly expect something less of you.

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This is the biggest trap.

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Most people fail when they compromise on their dreams

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and the vision in times of weakness.

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It is the time when a person is vulnerable

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and in this state of vulnerability,

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you will make a fatal mistake

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by scaling down on your ambitions.

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I'll give you examples.

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When I started playing cricket, I was only 18,

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I saw Dennis Lillee, this great
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and I wanted to be a fast bowler.

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Whenever I went to the coaches,

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the coaches would draw the senior players

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when I was playing country cricket.

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Everyone said, "You don't have the physique.

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You don't have the bowling action to become a fast bowler.

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You can't become a fast bowler."

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And every time they told me that if you try to change your action,

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you will lose all your natural gift.

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I am probably the only bowler in history

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who completely remodeled [his] action to suit [his] ambition.

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Because your body adjusts to your ambition.

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Your body will adjust. The body follows the mind.

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Mind is what is the power in a human being.

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The power of mind -- you can only discover

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this power when you look inside

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and put yourself against challenges,

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the more you challenge yourself,

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the more strength you will discover inside you.

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And then, later on,

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When I used to play for the Pakistan team, I always remember.

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The captain -- all the captains -- before we went out to the field,

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in the team meetings, we used to be told,

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"First priority is not to lose."

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And then winning was a bonus.

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Now this is a big difference, remember,

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the positive mindset is, "We will win,"

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[the] negative mindset is, "We should not lose."

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Any policies you make out of fear, are destined for disaster.

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Whenever you make your own policies in life

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they should never be determined out of fear of anything.

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And the worst fear is the fear of losing,

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because the fear of losing stops you from winning.

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During a match, for instance, and in life also,

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your opponents will always sometimes make a mistake.

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The people who [are] champions, who have positive outlook,

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in other words are looking to win,

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they would grab that moment.

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But players who go on the defensive, scared of losing,

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they will miss out on these moments.

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So the killer instinct is that, when your opponent

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makes a mistake, you grab it.

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You don't let him get back off the mat.

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But you can only do that

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if you are going in with the right frame of mind.

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And it's exactly the [same] thing in life.

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Whatever your dreams are,

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never think that you would not achieve it.

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I have never ever thought that whatever I put my mind to,

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never hesitated in my mind that I won't achieve it.

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And in politics, I have been 15 years.

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So you would have thought that I would have been

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now feeling -- that a lot of people --

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A lot of people tell me,

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"You've been [in politics for] 15 years and you haven't succeeded."

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But it depends what you are aiming for.

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What is it that you want?

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What are the goals you've set yourself?

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Is it just to become a prime minister?

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Is it just to become a member of the Parliament, a minister?

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What is your ambition?

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The greater the ambition, the [harder] work you've got to do.

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There are no shortcuts in life.

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If you want to achieve something big,

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there's no such thing as a quick way of achieving anything great.

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You have to go through the process,

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because it is the process what makes you,

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it's the process what strengthens you,

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and each time you fall and pick yourself up,

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you come back much stronger.

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But the secret is, you never ever give up.

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You only lose when you give up.

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And the ability to handle the bad times --

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know you should develop a mechanism,

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[for] vulnerable times, [not] suddenly giving up on your mission.

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So we wanted to build a cancer hospital,

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I wanted to build [it] because [of] seeing my mother in pain --

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but [also after] realizing what happens to a poor man when he gets cancer,

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because I realize the cost of cancer treatment,

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and I realized that if people like us can barely afford cancer treatment outside Pakistan,

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what happens to ordinary Pakistanis?

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That was the reason. So I campaigned for the hospital,

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that it would primarily be a free hospital --

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and secondly, it would not distinguish between the rich and the poor,

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because when I took my mother for treatment in England,

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she was in this hospital where there was

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a national health patient, and she was on the next bed, paying [for] it.

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No difference, the nurse and doctors didn't treat them any differently.

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So the other ambition was to have a hospital where there were no VIPs.

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Anyway, when the hospital opened in 1994-'95,

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we had this American administrator

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and the first thing he said was that

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"You would not be able to treat more than 5% of the patients [for] free,

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if you do, the hospital will close down."

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So here we were, the board,

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we [were] not the technocrats, he was the technocrat,

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him telling us that the hospital will close --

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you won't be able to afford it, you will go bankrupt.

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You know 15 years later, we overruled him

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because that's what we stood for.

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All the money I've [collected, for the majority to] be treated free.

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15 years later, we were awarded by the WHO as a center of excellence

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and the only private cancer hospital anywhere in the world

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which gives over 75% free treatment.

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And then I was in my constituency in Mianwali, I was campaigning,

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I discovered a lot of young men who were unemployed

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and who ended up either on very high rate of drug addiction

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and secondly crime.

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So I thought I'll build a little technical college

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so that they can come in, give them few skills

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and they could be employable.

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I went to people, they gave me beautiful a piece of land,

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by a lake, hills behind.

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And then as I was thinking of building this little technical college

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I got approached by Bradford University to become their chancellor.

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So I thought okay, if I can get Bradford University to come here,

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which was a technical based university,

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I could have a technical based university here, in Namal.

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Everyone told me that you can't build it in a rural area

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because you can't get faculty.

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It is now the first private sector university in the rural area and in a wild area.

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It's only about 40-50 miles as the crow flies from Waziristan.

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So imagine building a university

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with Bradford University degrees in that part of the world.

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And you won't believe it, not only has it taken off,

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the first batch comes out,

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but we've created another revolution --

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in Mianwali, where there is no concept at all of coeducation,

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we have, for the first time, girls from poor conservative families

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studying at the university with the boys.

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Of course now the dream has been upscaled

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into making it into a knowledge city.

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The people have given me a thousand acres of land

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-- a thousand! All by the poor people around.

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So we've got a thousand acres of land

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now the ambition is to build a proper knowledge city there

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and have other institutions from other
medical colleges, textile colleges,

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so that it's like Oxford University, and build on beautiful premises.

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And not only did we have faculty come from outside Pakistan,

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young Pakistani PhD's have come there

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but from LUMS, the PhDs who have qualified,

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they've come and started working there.

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So in my opinion, if you create the conditions,

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if they are the right conditions, you can do anything.

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Now something which Raja Saab said and what he has done.

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In my opinion, in Pakistan all you need to do is to create the right conditions.

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You just need an enabling environment in Pakistan.

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You basically need good governance here.

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Just one thing, good governance.

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There's so much vibrancy in the society, that it will take off.

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I draw my experiences from two areas,

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one was cricket --

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in Pakistan, we produced the world cup winning team

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despite having no system in the country,

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despite the system, not because of the system.

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There's no cricket system in Pakistan.

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And for all of you sitting here, if nothing else I am a triple PhD in cricket --

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and I can tell you, never nowhere in the world

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have I seen such sporting talent as in this country.

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And who else? I was just with Dave Richards in India during the world cup

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and Dave Richards on television said

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that the best talent anywhere in the world
he had seen, was in Pakistan.

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So we have all this talent --

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I have never seen a player of the ability

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of that boy Mohammad Amir who got disqualified.

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I've never seen a talent like that.

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I saw Wasim Acram, he [Mohammad] is even better than Wasim Acram,

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and Wasim was one of the best.

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So you have this talent:
Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan

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Oxford University has more squash courts
than the whole of Pakistan.

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Both world champions for 10 years.

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In my opinion, Pakistan is a country which is oozing with talent.

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It does not have a system, does not have institutions,

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does not have rule of law.

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Has criminals running the country.

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No country can prosper [like that] --

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it's impossible, if you are in a factory and put criminals,

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the factory will collapse.

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How can a country go on?

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And the only problem in our way is apathy.

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The one thing, which in my opinion -- there is a verse in the Koran:

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"Those who have faith, Allah removes their fears."

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Fear is the biggest problem in this country.

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We are scared, people are so scared to take on these vested interests.

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We are sitting and watching this charade in front of us

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and people are reluctant to do anything.

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In Britain, 2 million people came out in the street against the war in Iraq.

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2 million people -- it wasn't even an injustice being done to the people of Britain,

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it was in Iraq,

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and 2 million people came out to protest.

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To sum it all, Pakistan in my opinion --

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this country has everything.

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We have two great institutions in this country

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which are vibrant and functioning:

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one is the supreme court,

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although there are all sorts of efforts to stop it functioning,

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and the other is a very vibrant media,

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despite -- I know Fasid said something, they do get carried away --

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but, despite everything, the current affair programmes

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have created [an] awakening,

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a sort of awareness which didn't exist here before.

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All we need is an independent election commission

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and the next election you will see, inshallah, a revolution in this country.

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Thank you.

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