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

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.

Shooting gun is so much more fun than shooting ads

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

I will ensure that Japan keeps getting better, better this year than last year, and better next year than this year.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I love the yellow sun. It reminds me of Russia in the 30s for some reason.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I’ve always believed in the strength and resilience of the American people.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

We cannot allow ourselves to go on divided.