In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

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.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.