Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

It's important not to take anything for granted.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.