My level of excitement is above cricket proportions

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.