In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.
I announced my retirement from international cricket in May 2018 because I wanted to reduce my workload and spend more time with my wife and young sons. Some have insisted I was motivated purely by money. They are wrong.
I wrote in my book, 'unPlanned,' about a church that kicked me out when they found out that I worked for Planned Parenthood. I often get questioned about that, whether I still think they made the wrong decision. My answer is a resounding 'Yes.'
I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.
I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.
We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.
In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong.
