51 Inspirational quotes from MS Dhoni

• I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
• 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 channelize your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
• 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.
• It’s important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What’s done is done.
• I never allow myself to be pressured.

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.
• If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
• I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organizes cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
• For me, opposition is just another opposition.
• 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.

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

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

• Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel – that’s my favourite time-pass.
• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
• For me, it’s important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
• Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.
• My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don’t like fish, so that is that.
• I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other’s company. I don’t like discussing cricket off the field.

• 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.
• For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.
• We have to understand that the five-day format has its own uncertainties, unlike ODIs or T20s. In ODIs, you know that you have to field for 50 overs only, while in Test cricket, there may be a situation that a team might bat for one-and-a-half to two days.

• When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the Under-16 or the Under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side.

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.

Frankly, I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

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.

I really don’t care what people say; I found Srinivasan as someone who was always there to help cricketers.

• Whether a player has played one match or a hundred, we should give him respect for what he has achieved and leave it at that.
• I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
• I like to stay away from the game when I am not playing it.
• 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.