Mahendra Singh Dhoni Quotes
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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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.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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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.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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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.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family.
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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.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.