Name: 【TEDx】TEDxKarachi 2011 - Imran Khan - Never Give up on Your Dreams
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Let me start by saying that my first challenge was cricket.

To-infinitive

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

Past simple

I watched my older cousin Javed Burki scoring a century

at what should not be called Gaddafi Stadium now --

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

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

that I would not become a test cricketer,

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

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

But the thing about achieving the impossible is --

It's a question of handling the bad times.

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

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

You will face setbacks, there will be failures

but the people who actually win in the end,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the more setbacks, the more failures you should expect.

and the right side, through the pavilion,

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

All along the way as I walked to the middle

and remember it's 70 yards to the middle,

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

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

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

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

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

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

it might have been 70 miles I was walking.

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

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

how could have they turned around and be saying

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

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

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

the sort of defeat that was very difficult,

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

and we are flying off to Pakistan the next day.

How can we arrive in Lahore when everyone is asleep?

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

The custom people kept us there for three hours,

and everything was confiscated, I still remember it.

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

So everything was taken away from us by the custom official

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

The players had to hide in their houses, really,

because the sort of anger the public felt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

take the agenda of corruption to the people --

that corruption is the number one issue in Pakistan,

and then just before the election we withdraw.

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

thinking that we are not going to contest election

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

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

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

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

to say that we boycott because at the time

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

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

because they had no idea what elections were.

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