When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

We definitely have a lot of talent in India for football. It is great to see football's growing popularity and I really hope a larger number of corporate companies invest in the game so that one day we have a great team to boast about.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.

I try to do better than what I have before.