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.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

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

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

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.