There's an interview-stream-of-consciousness thing from Rahul Dravid on Cricinfo, and every cricket fan should take five minutes and read it. There's a lot of great insight in his comments about the game, but the main theme revolves around Dravid's "intellectualism." That is, Dravid claims he was not a natural player with loads of God-given talent; instead, he felt like he had to think and practice and reflect and think and train (and so on) to rise to the top.
A beautiful mini-dissection of a recent observation by Rahul Dravid regarding the perception of talent in Indian cricket...
