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

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

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

When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

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

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