“From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.”

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.

I love to be in the moment; I love to analyze things a bit.

Till the full stop doesn’t come, the sentence is not complete.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

A safe army is better than a safe border.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Too many kings can ruin an army.