It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.

When you are watching a cricket match, and a side is 140 for 5 and another 100 plus to get in trying conditions and when you get that without losing a wicket, not only is that entertainment, it shows all the qualities a sportsperson should have to reach the top level.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

We are a country obsessed by records. For us, hundreds, ten thousand runs, and large haul of wickets are more important than the performance of the Indian team.

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

It's not worth scoring thousands of runs if your team keeps on losing.

If you have the leader under pressure always go for him. You need to get stuck in. You have to make the game as tough as you can.

As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy.

I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.

Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.

In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn't even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.

The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

We want Indian cricket to carry on.

Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

When you play the game, you want your mind clear. You want to be able to focus inwards without a care in the world for anything outside.

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.

You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

Take up a challenge and treat it as an opportunity. Once you do that and succeed, all you want in life is more such opportunities.

Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.

It's a privilege and an honour to be a part of the Indian team setup.

Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.

When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.

I am used to challenges, bring on another one.

When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don't know what you can achieve.

Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well one day, get hammered the next, and immediately the spotlight is on you. That eats into you.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days - dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That's historically been cricket's most fascinating gift.

A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.

I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.

Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.

We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.

I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best out of me.

An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.

I like honeymoons. The more the merrier.

You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.

I never want to shy away from a challenge.

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.