“Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.”
“Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.”
“In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.”
“Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.”
“Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.”
“A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.”
“Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.”
“For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.”
“Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.”
“Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.”