It's when the runs are not coming that even the minutest of flaws are viewed under the microscope. You look into your game and try to pick every single thing you can improve about it. At the end of it, you emerge as a better player than you were.

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

I enjoy the company of overseas people. It's always good learning.

Mizzou was my real family. I loved it. Football was a sense of home. A home I never had.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.