Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
Never give up; just absolutely never give up.
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.
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.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against. " But you're probably part of it.