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 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 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.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?