Quotes About Performance

You have got to field well. If you don't bat well, you can still make a difference by fielding well. There are times I have played games just because of my fielding.

No one can act like Bachchan saab or bat like Virender Sehwag.

When I look at someone like Andrew Symonds, I see a player who has done phenomenally well with the bat, as his record shows. He certainly has the ability to be a very good all-rounder, but I think to be a great one, you need to be able to turn a game with the bat or the ball.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

That's where I would love to bat, and I have always batted at the top of the order. Numbers one and two are what I am most comfortable in.

Each time I go back to bat, I will want to get more and more runs.

This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.

I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

It depends upon the make-up of the team where I'm going to bat.

I take great pride in my defense because the bat is not always going to be there.

I have three lines in 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' about having to go to the bathroom, and it's the most money I ever made.

With all my bats I like them to be bottom-heavy, so they help me to hold the line through the shot.

When you go up there in the batter's box, you're engaged to hit. It's the same thing with baserunning.

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I have always liked to attack the bowlers, and batting is all about getting runs.

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

I don't like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.

Yes, outside India, my batting performances have been highlighted more.

The battle royals are usually among my least favorite matches.