I have always believed that process is more important than results.
If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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.
Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.
Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.
I live in the present with an eye on the future.
Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.
I never allow myself to be pressured.
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.
I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.
I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.
