Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.