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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people.

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.