You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

You're never too worried as a captain, when you know Rahul Dravid's still out there.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the only way out. So I will keep playing.

Dhoni is the greatest captain of our country. His record is proof of that.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.