I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.

We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.

Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.

I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile. They give you Hope. Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon.

I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.