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 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.

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

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.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

Wilds whisper, yet I long for their roar.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.