With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

Tears are words waiting to be spoken

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

You can never trust what you read.