“If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself, you don’t really know what the target is.”

Everybody has views in life, and it should be respected.

You don’t need to spoon-feed bowlers at the international level.

I am on national duty. Everything else can wait.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

Strong Characters are needed in the game.

In front of 40,000 people, you don’t really want to drop a catch or misfield. It’s part and parcel of the game.

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

I like to make statements on the field.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

I don’t regret anything in my life. What does not kill you makes you stronger.

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come.

India-Pakistan matches always capture the imagination of people from either side.

One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.

I’m a person who lives very in the moment.

I don’t mind repeating everything.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.

I have a vision and not a mere dream .

You can’t really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

Tell me I’m your sweet thing so I can simmer in sweet dreams tonight.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

How can I be anywhere that I am, when I dream of being everywhere that I’m not?