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

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 believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

I think we should all be pursuing something of zero regrets, and how do we become greater than we were yesterday.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.