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.

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.

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.

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 am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

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.