“An honour to get the Padma Bhushan and receiving it in Uniform increases the excitement ten folds.”

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.