“If you’re true to yourself, you won’t fear anything.”

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Focused & ready to go.

Tough game but happy to be on the winning side.

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

When you absolutely love what you do, everything just flows.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Remember who you are and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

I’ve noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.