Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

The higher you rise above your fears the higher you will rise above your peers.

Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.

This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself