The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

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

Identities were created for clarity and simplicity but it divides!

Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience.

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?

Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain