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.

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.

It’s very easy to blame others, but very difficult to prove your ability.

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.