What drives Sunil Chhetri at 38

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"I live a boring and monotonous life..." Yet Sunil Chhetri does the most incredible things. Here's how... ⚽️ 🐐    🎥 : CRED.

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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

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