If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means "Next Opportunity".

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

Health makes good propaganda.

Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.