At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.
Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.
I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don't like to be hassled.
I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.
Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.
Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.