Mahendra Singh Dhoni Quotes

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

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

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.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.