A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing.

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.