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 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.

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.

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.

Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.