- Don’t respect Australians:
“I respect a few of them. I have no reason to respect anyone who does not respect me. I’m not out there to gain anyone’s respect. I’m out there to play cricket.”
In the 2014/15 Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, Kohli took his batting to another level as he scored over 650 runs in the 4 match series. In the third Test at Melbourne, Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson hurled the ball back at Kohli, which hit the latter, leading to a war of words. Post the game, Kohli sternly said that he wouldn’t respect any individual who wouldn’t respect him firstly.