The God of popular religion is not holy.
The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.
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.
When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.
Never give up; just absolutely never give up.
Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to get bowling partnerships, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral. " A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.