“Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.”

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.

It doesn’t matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 – you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive.

If I keep going to the farm, there won’t be any strawberry left for the market

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

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

If you are not 100 percent fit and not at your best (and still play) it’s cheating.

I don’t study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I’ve played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.