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

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.

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

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

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.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

You must ask and meditate, after which the Holy Spirit will awaken your spirit to be joined with Him

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

What is greater than painIs a greater brainMore powerful than anything.

We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience