“When I’m at home, I love playing action-oriented computer games.”

You need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004.

Listen to your elder’s advice not because they are always right, but because they have more experience of being wrong.

I don’t think I will ever make my all-time greatest India team. You cannot compare one era with another, as they will be different.

Snow brings the best out of her.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Self-Confidence has always been one of my good qualities.

You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

One thing about our country that is constant is cricket.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

Even when you bowl a bad over, try to restrict it in between 15-18 runs, because if you go higher than that, it has a bigger impact on the game.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

The reason why people love T20 is the sixes and fours.

I have more than I will ever need for one life.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they’re stopping for me.

I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.

Perfection comes from the disinterested performance of an action on a continuous basis.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.