Sourav Ganguly

“You can't be chasing 338 and still have 5 wickets in the end. It's about mindset and the way you look at the game.”

“I made it pretty clear that if I'm captain, the best team has to play.”

“The moment a spinner gets turn he becomes dangerous.”

“Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.”

“I didn't play an ODI game for 15 months when I was probably the best performer in one-day cricket. It happens in life. The best in the world are at times shown the door.”

“I have lot of hopes from Virat Kohli and nation believes in him.”

“When Virat Kohli plays, wherever you are you will come and watch that because he is playing. That is his impact. When you look at him, you will get to know that this man has a mission of making his team the best.”

“I think nobody has the right to talk about Sachin Tendulkar's game. It's just a phenomenon.”

“Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.”

“I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.”

“I was at the Wimbledon some time back and I saw Roger Federer play.”

“Kohli is the greatest chaser by far and I am saying this keeping in mind the great man Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin was special but as far as chasing is concerned, Kohli has done better than Sachin. Kohli is unreal.”

“I didn't have a good time with Lancashire in 2000. Probably I'd played too much cricket and should have taken a rest, but I went there when the offer came because I had always had an ambition to play the county game in England. And I was a bit jaded. And I didn't do myself justice. I want to put that right before I finish my career.”

“I live in the present and do not look that far ahead.”

“I've realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.”

“My captaincy model was characterised by two distinctive pillars. Proper identification of talent and then ensuring the young finds play fearless cricket.”

“Ravindra Jadeja should not be in the World Cup team.”

“In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.”

“As captain you're involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you're a player. You realise you've to take the back seat.”

“India, Pakistan series has always been decided by the government. We toured in 2003-04 when I was the captain and it was for the first time since 1989-90 that we toured Pakistan. There were times even in those days when the series was planned but would get cancelled. So you have to leave it to the government.”