Leander Paes

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.