People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson

To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

kisses... areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.

Patience is productive only when aligned and doggedly chasing of objectives is pursued with consistence and persistence

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.