Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

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.

Not one person can afford your dream

In the '60s and '70s people were a little bit more naive and trusting and got in people's cars without thinking about it.

When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.