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

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

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 don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

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

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 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.

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.

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.