Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don't just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

When you give, it comes back to you.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn't doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I'm happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I'm a free spirit.

Why am I here? I'm not lucky. That's God.

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

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

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

It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.

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 live in the present with an eye on the future.

Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

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

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.

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.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

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

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

In tennis ball cricket, even it's hit from the toe of the bat, the ball still travels a lot, but in normal cricket, it has to be the middle part of the bat, so it requires a lot of work.

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

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

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

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.

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.

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.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.