Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

The actors I admire are character actors.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

My fun days are over.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.