Quotes from MS Dhoni

Our biggest strength has always been the fans. All over, wherever we have gone, CSK has got support.

Let me tell you, it is an absolute lie that I told a probe panel that Meiyappan was only a cricket enthusiast. All I said is he had nothing to do with the team's on-field cricketing decisions. I can't even pronounce the word 'enthusiast.'

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.

The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense.

One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.

If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

I have always believed that process is more important than results.

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.

When I'm at home, I love playing action-oriented computer games.

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 love my country. I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

Nobody really wants to bowl a bad over, but if it happens, the individual is more disappointed than anyone else in the stadium or the team. Ideally, it is best to leave him to this thoughts and then have a chat with him after the team is back at the hotel when he will be less frustrated and more accepting.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

If you keep winning, you don't know the areas you've to work hard.

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

The reason why people love T20 is the sixes and fours.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.