“Strong Characters are needed in 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.

Our trainer doesn’t count biceps and tricep as an exercise, maybe he knows anyways we will do it.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn’t show up.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.