I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

I try to do better than what I have before.

My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself.

I am not brand conscious. I wear what suits me.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

No matter how far I go, I'm still your person. We stand together now.

When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!

Every battle is won before it is fought.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.