I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

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

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.