Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

I do not teach. I relate.