When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can't fool Allah.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

I'm proud to be a freak of nature.

Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.