When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.