My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it ‘character in action.’

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.