Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Healing Follows Forgiveness

That's what this country needs -- more books!

I am a haystack in a needle of time.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.