Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

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.

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

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.

Kids need to find someone going the same direction by the same methodology – and try not to fall in love beforehand. – Toby Willis

What we see depends mainly on what we look for

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.