The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

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.

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.

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

When men learn to glimpse the Universe through the eyes of the Spirit, all they see is Love

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

I was going to stay overnight at my friend's house - he said, "you'll have to sleep on the floor." Damn gravity! You don't know how bad I wanted to sleep on the wall.