I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

Happiness is not only how to make yourself happy! but it's also how to draw a smile on others face..

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.

People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.