Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I belong deeply to myself.