I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.
I never allow myself to be pressured.
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.
For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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 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 don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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 have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.
He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.
