I am Happy With Simple Comforts, not Pointless Extravagance
I’ve always been careful about how I spend money, but I didn’t really learn to manage my earnings until I got married. In the seventies, when I started playing badminton professionally, it was my father who managed my prize money earnings. My needs were few: a few good rackets and shuttles. Life was simple in those days. There wasn’t such a great emphasis on intensive coaching, special diets or expensive equipment. My father coached my brothers and me, and we were all in the state and national teams, although only I took it up professionally.
