“I don’t look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.”

I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Speed can’t always get you wickets.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

I always breathe cricket.

All artists are crazy.

I have no political aspirations. That’s it.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

The hunger to win must not die. The appetite has to remain big.

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

I keep making art out of his mistakes.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.

I may have been disposable to you but don’t mistake me as replaceable.

I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.