There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

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

We fight because we fail to really understand why we fight

Instead of allowing a situation to alter your attitude negatively. Let your positive attitude alter the situation.

If you want to succeed, get some enemies.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

An island of surety in a changing world.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

I love America, and I love living here.

Nobody's safe, humor wise.

As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.