He can make girls go weak in their knees with his looks, dimpled smile and sculpted body. But John Abraham says he never had the guts to go up to a woman and express his feelings.

"All through my growing years, I've always had crushes on women who never reciprocated my feelings, but went after my friends. I never had the guts or the right time to go up to a woman and tell her that I really like her, " said John, who has been voted as India's sexiest bachelor by Big CBS Prime.

John, who broke up with actress Bipasha Basu after an eight-year relationship, never even tried a pick up line on women.

"I never tried a pick up line on a woman because I think no woman deserves a pick up line, very honestly, " John said.