From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.