While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

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.

With the pursuit of faith, I am a free soul.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Time is a treasure on earth.

I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep.” “That’s all, ” Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, “a long clean sleep.

I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.