In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor."Can you just tell me what it says?" he says.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends