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

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Africa, South Africa, About, South

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

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Dream, Know, You, Yourself

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.

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Trust, Abroad, Which, Identify

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

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Play, Reason, Country, Match

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

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Will, Rather, Also, Centuries

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.

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Study, Through, Learned, Watched

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.

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Lunch, Some, Rides, Excite

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.

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Always, Been, Very, Aggressive

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.

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Mindset, Gone, Read, Aggressive

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.

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Play, Achieve, Other, Studies

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.

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Play, Big, Country, Businessmen

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

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Learn, Important, Same, Same Mistakes

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

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Young, Combat, Read, Weapons

A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.

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Role, Used, Lot, Changed

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.

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Lucky, Country, Very, Indian

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

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Bad, Always, Am, Indian

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

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Movies, Big, Big Part, Indian

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.

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Through, Average, Very, To Survive

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

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Hands, Come, Still, Every Time

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.

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Green, Forest, Drinking, Table

I love being in the present. 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. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

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Love, Next, Very, Next Level

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.

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Next, The Only Thing, About, Next Level

After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

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Next, Olympic, Works, Gold Medal

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.

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Victory, Worry, More, I Believe

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

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Wife, Country, Tell, Order

Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family.

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Mumbai, Which, Means, Visit

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

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Love, Things, I Love, Analyse

I never allow myself to be pressured.

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Myself, Never, Allow, Pressured

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.

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Work, Decision, Gut, Scenarios

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

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Best, About, Lives, I Care

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