It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

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.

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.

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

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