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 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.

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.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.