Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Tendulkar must have known from his heart

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.