Sports tought me to compete in right spirit, says Sachin Tendulkar

<p><img width: 620px; height: 410px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000212B_Kand_0.jpg"></p><p><strong>(Photo: PTI)</strong></p><p><strong>Coimbatore</strong><strong>:</strong> Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said sports taught him to get up on his feet again and compete in the right spirit.</p><p><img width: 620px; height: 824px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000210A_Kand (1).jpg"></p><p><em><strong>"It is not always I went out and succeeded. But there were number of occasions, when I could not do well. But sports taught me to get up on my feet again and compete in the right spirit", he said. (Photo: PTI)</strong></em></p><p>Tendulkar addressed at the grand finale of Isha Gramotsvam, a rural sports camp, organised by Isha Foundation, here on Friday.</p><p><img width: 620px; height: 440px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000267A_Kand_0.jpg"></p><p><em><strong>"Sports means everything to me and sports taught me a lot of things in life...to be disciplined and to be focused," he said. (Photo: PTI)</strong></em></p><p>"Sports is something, which gives you a reason to smile. It is hence I am smiling in front of you," he said.</p><p><img width: 620px; height: 440px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000266A_Kand_0.jpg"></p><p><em><strong>Noticing that the success of Gramotsavam, in which the rural men and women played sports like volleyball, throwball, kabaddi and pole climbing, (Photo: PTI)</strong></em></p><p>Tendulkar suggested to the Foundation to organise such sporting activities in Puttamraju Kandrika, a village in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, which he had adopted.</p><p><img width: 620px; height: 384px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000211B_Kand.jpg"></p><p><em><strong>"Engaging in sports helps the community to come closer and stay tighter in difficult times. Sports teaches you on team work, which can never fail," he said. (Photo: PTI)</strong></em></p><p>"If you apply it in your day to day life, most of the problems will be solved," he said.</p><p><img width: 620px; height: 733px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/PTI9_4_2015_000304A_Kand_0.jpg"></p><p><em><strong>The former cricketer also shared his love for the game of volleyball and said when he was a child he played the game in his building. (Photo: PTI)</strong></em></p>