“You learn a lot more when you’re going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.”

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.

I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

You don’t play for the crowd, you play for the country.

When you die, you die. You don’t think which is the better way to die.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

When people talk about South Africa, it’s all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

You only evolve with time, and that’s what I am trying to do.

I focus on cricket because it’s something I am good at. After retiring, I want to serve the Indian Army. It has always been about serving the nation.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life.

I don’t like discussing cricket off the field.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

Process is more important than results.

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don’t really worry about the result if there’s great commitment on the field. That’s a victory for me.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

But I don’t want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.