It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.
AB de Villiers
I like to entertain the crowd. Personally I like to entertain my team-mates first, but when the crowd gets going, it is amazing.
I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.
I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.
There are so many dreams that I'd like to follow.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.
I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.
I try and keep my feet on the ground and keep working at my game.
I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.
Sometimes you don't quite realise what you have achieved until you look back.
I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.
I don't overthink things.
It's a huge honour to play my 100th Test, and I never in my life thought I'll be in this kind of position.
As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.
If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.
From a personal standpoint, my ability to play all around the wicket is more mindset than anything else.
I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.
It's important on any English wicket to leave well.
We want to swing the ball as much as we can. We try and get it to reverse, putting more sweat on one side and things like that. But we don't cheat.
I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.
Even the thunderous master-blasters, like Andre Russell and MS Dhoni, men who now make scoring more than 20 runs per over look simple, often thrive on the right side of an incredibly slender gap between six and out. They are not more lucky than anyone else. They are more brilliant.
Wrong is wrong. Guys try to find a way to get the ball to reverse, but you have to stay in the laws.
The interests of the team must always outweigh the interests of any individual, including me.
You've got to be able to work hard. There must be inner drive that you want to be the best in the world at what you do.
There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.
I will continue to be the biggest supporter of Faf du Plessis and the Proteas.
I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.
I watch the ball, and I just play. I have always said that I don't feel there's a big difference between the three formats. It is just a mindset, applying yourself to the wicket and conditions, and that's always been the way that I have played.
There are lots of mentally very tough players that I have played against and with.
The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn't define a player's career.
I feel I handle the pressure situations well, and that's why I want to be there at the end.
We all grow up dreaming of playing international cricket.
To cross the line for the team, to have an impact on winning the game - that's why I play this game.
The World Cup is a tough tournament.
It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.
There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.
It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.
I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.
In my heart, international cricket is the way forward. That's where you want to play; that's where the pressure really lies. That's where you make your name.
The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.
I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.
I rest a bit more when I keep. The only thing I have to look after is my back and using different muscle groups.
I'm not the kind of guy who cares how many hundreds I've scored.
I believe I am strong mentally. My breaking points might be bigger than most players. I think it's because of the way I grew up with my two older brothers. They pushed my limits quite often - once every day, I think! I think that played a big role in my breaking point being bigger than most players. Not all players.
I can't keep playing 10-11 months a year and keep being sharp after 15 years of international cricket.
Money wasn't the motivating factor in calling time on my international career and focusing on T20 cricket. If I was here to make as much money as I can, I would be playing 10 to 12 tournaments a year.
I believe all teams choke in certain situations.
Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.
