I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.
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.
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.
There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.