"Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that."

"It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket."

"I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country."

"I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team."

"Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit."

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."

"In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."