“Critics haven’t taught me my cricket, and they don’t know what my body and mind are up to.”

I’ve been fortunate to have caring and loving parents, who gave me the freedom to fly and chase my dreams.

Loving a sport with passion is important! Being open to new experiences is equally important.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

You tried, you failed, you believed & in the end you are an inspiration for the nation.

The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.

I just want to continue the way I am going.

It’s always been a joy to spend time with youngsters.‬

A healthy country is a happy country.

Don’t wait for a special day to plant a tree. The best time is now.

How about a 6 month vacation, twice a year?

There might be many strong walls around us but the greatest yet is the one and only, Rahul Dravid.

The unconditional love, support and attention that our parents showered on us as we were growing up laid our foundation as individuals.

When we wander, we reconnect with our inner selves.

The lessons to be learnt from success and failure are equally important, and more often than not, failure and sorrow are bigger teachers than success and happiness.

It’s always good to mix work with play.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

It’s like I hear your body talking to me telling me how to satisfy your soul.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I’m perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Your caress seduces my body like I’m possessed.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.