As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

Dhoni is a big player. He's achieved a lot as a player and as a captain.

We must live in peace. It's necessary.

I love to watch Rohit Sharma bat.

When the key players in your team perform well, the team does well, too.

T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team's chances.

World Cup 2003 was the worst phase in my career, but that is now behind me, and I am doing all-out efforts to get my place in the team back and further my career.

The PCB needs to be clear in its stance on players who have been involved in corruption and tarnishing the image of the country. Because playing for the national team is the highest honor for any athlete.

My desire, like everyone else, is to see the team win.

I have no problems playing under anyone.

In Pakistan cricket, the real test comes when the team is not doing well. When it is winning, everything is fine.

It is when your team is losing that the captain has to keep the players together. He has to fight for them.

Adjusting to life without cricket hasn't been very tough.

One day, those who play have to leave the stage.

I didn't play much under Imranbhai, but he was special.

Handling pressure is the key to doing well in Indo-Pak matches.

It is not easy when people laugh at you.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

There is always great significance playing against India, and it is always special and a treat for people in both countries.

The 2005 Test tour to India was special, as I captained and we won at Bangalore, and it was a great tour for us, and even winning against India at Lahore in 2004 was a memorable day for me.

Tests with India always produce some great finishes.

In the single group format, where each team plays against the other, it gives a chance to the established outfits to make a comeback if they falter in the early games.

It is a do-or-die battle every time we play India.

The victory in the 1992 World Cup changed Pakistan cricket. A number of cricketers from that side turned out to be role models and inspiration for the younger generation.

We were able to dominate the world in the '90s because the World Cup victory completely transformed us and changed our mindset.

The World Cup 2015 will be a stage for youngsters to make names for themselves and earn the respect and recognition of the cricket pundits. However, this can only be achieved if they don't get overawed by the situation, stay focused, stick to basics, respect the opponents, and follow match plans that will vary from match to match.

Playing Test cricket for one's country is the ultimate, but people are enjoying Twenty20 format because everything will be over within three hours.

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

I like excess. And giant M&M's.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.