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

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 live in the present with an eye on the future.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.

I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

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

When you die, you die. You don’t think which is the better way to die.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

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.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.

A boat can’t have two captains.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn’t communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.