“I have played cricket on my own terms.”

One can’t feel old in a day or overnight!

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work – it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team’s strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

When you take risks and things don’t go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

I am not too intelligent.

If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

Selectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

I never said, ‘I wouldn’t help a cricketer if he approaches me.’

It isn’t easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

When you have to work, work with a smile.

Good sports facilities are a blessing.

A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I rock shows by myself. Ain’t no backup. Ain’t no help.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.