Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

There's always Gold amongst Silver but they don't know it and there's always Silver amongst Gold but they don't show it.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.