Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.