No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play

The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love.

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.