“Nothing better than connecting with nature on a rest day.”

We have to win everything. The last time we went to South Africa, we had an opportunity to win the series, but things didn’t work out.

Our reefs are the heart and souls of our oceans. Nothing makes me happier than a healthy reef.

Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.

I’m learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there’s no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

Seeing off the new ball is important for me. I know that once I do that, the only way I could get out could be from my own mistake.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Ganesh Chaturti has always been one of my favourite festivals since I was a kid!

My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

Isn’t blue such a good color? Let’s try and keep it that way.

There are things we control – but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

It feels amazing to be a part of the rhino conservation story in India.

Pride, love and passion for India.

Your wings already exist, you just have to fly.

The echo of the bat, the laces through the ball, the match-winning ace and the one-punch knockout, 2020 has thrown a curve-ball at us. But we’re coming back. Coming back stronger.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. You get better.

Better laid than never.

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

I will forever commit to those that push my buttons but make me a better person.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

I’d rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.

I don’t know people who don’t say ‘boy, the government is working better now.’