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.

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 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.

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

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.

No amount of love from the outside can make up for the lack of self-love in one's heart.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.

They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.