It appeared as if the whole nation stood up to greet me in Ahmedabad on my taking the 432nd wicket. The country was proud and that made me really happy... This was the first time in my life I realized what it is to be the number 1 in the world. It is a heady feeling almost out of the world.

Quoted in Dev, Romi (1994). Kapil Dev: Triumph of the Spirit. Allied Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7023-402-9.