If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

My best trip is yet to come.

Sweet serenity

Nightmares are at all times better than real life

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.