For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.

Working conditions at the computer and long seated sessions can lead to weakness and pronounced posture problems.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.