It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.

Art is an expression of inner beauty.

In our darkest moments we become stronger. In our happiest moments we become vulnerable.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.