IPL is pure sport. The glitz and glamour is just 15 per cent. 85% is actually professional, hard cricket.

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.

Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently.

I have many, many fond memories of Yuvraj Singh. He started under my captaincy.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.