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 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.

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 used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.