I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

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 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.

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

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.