The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.