The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success

I try to look cute all the time.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

So darlin' if your wonderin' why I brought you here tonight I wanna be your husband I want you to be my wife I ain't got much to give you but what I got means everything Its my last name

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.