In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Cricket was my reason for living.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.

Don't spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.

Practice humility and patience.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.