You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

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

There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.

In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

The heart / That laughs must ache.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

Obama's not ultimately gonna get away with totally destroying America. His damage already done is brutal and he's gonna do more and we're gonna have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.