Quotes from MS Dhoni

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

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.

You have seen cricketers who are not god-gifted, but even then, they have gone far. That's because of the passion.

I live for the moment - not the future, not the past.

I really don't care what people say; I found Srinivasan as someone who was always there to help cricketers.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

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.

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.

Whether a player has played one match or a hundred, we should give him respect for what he has achieved and leave it at that.

It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

We have always made sure that players who have played for CSK, even those who came from other franchises for whatever reason, have performed well.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

I think it is always a challenge when you go and play abroad. You are competing against the home team, and they know the conditions well. Their fast bowlers always know which length to bowl and also the areas in which they need to bowl.