“The hunger to win must not die. The appetite has to remain big.”

One can’t feel old in a day or overnight!

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work – it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team’s strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

When you take risks and things don’t go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

I am not too intelligent.

If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

Selectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

I never said, ‘I wouldn’t help a cricketer if he approaches me.’

It isn’t easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

When you have to work, work with a smile.

Good sports facilities are a blessing.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that’s wrong so we miss the big picture of all that’s right.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

I don’t make big grand gestures, generally.

I’m not that big, physically. I’m just big where it counts – I got a big heart!

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.

I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.