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I have been to Pakistan many times and enjoyed every visit and it breaks my heart to see teams not playing in that country.
I have been brought up watching the 'Rocky' series and 'First Blood' series. I am obviously a big fan of Sylvester Stallone.
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.
Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.
I thank Allah that I have been playing for Pakistan for a long time. This is a big honour for me; I had not even thought so.
Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.
Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.
I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.
When you are playing against an opposition, you want to go out there and win a game, and for that, you have to be aggressive.
I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.
Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.
I wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.
I've had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.
I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don't follow fashion.
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
I have to accept that my role is to gather the runs slowly. Kevin Pietersen is flamboyant, but that style doesn't work for me.
I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.
Dhoni Is My Hero. We talk a lot about Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, But this boy has as much talent as anyone in the game
We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.
After getting dropped from the Australian team, for me it was always just about being the team, it doesn't matter where I bat.
I've shown throughout my career that I have always put representing my state and country first and foremost. I love what I do.
I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh
I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.
If you are considered as favourites, you have stand up and deliver. You can't make too many mistakes. You have to be the best.
You just feel a little odd when you don't get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.
When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.
Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success in # IPL !
This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.
Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.
There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.
One of my favourite sportsmen was Diego Maradona and every time I saw him play football you could see the passion in the heart.
Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.
Yes, I would have loved to win it, but I have great memories from World Cups. The 2007 tournament - my first - was very special.
I like to entertain the crowd. Personally I like to entertain my team-mates first, but when the crowd gets going, it is amazing.
In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.
It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.
I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
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.
Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.
I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.