I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

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.

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

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

You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I'm saying, that just kept, messing it up for everybody! And then everybody on your team doesn't have that drive that you have.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.