I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

You have to know the value of nothing before the value of something

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.