I have always believed that process is more important than results.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

In tennis ball cricket, even it's hit from the toe of the bat, the ball still travels a lot, but in normal cricket, it has to be the middle part of the bat, so it requires a lot of work.

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

Nobody really wants to bowl a bad over, but if it happens, the individual is more disappointed than anyone else in the stadium or the team. Ideally, it is best to leave him to this thoughts and then have a chat with him after the team is back at the hotel when he will be less frustrated and more accepting.

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

Even when you bowl a bad over, try to restrict it in between 15-18 runs, because if you go higher than that, it has a bigger impact on the game.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.

India-Pakistan matches always capture the imagination of people from either side.

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many.

Unless you know the individual, it's very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do.

Frankly, I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

Everybody has views in life, and it should be respected.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.