Quotes

• 1."Reading allows me to recharge my batteries."




• 2."I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat."




• 3."Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe."




• 4."A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to."




• 5."What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing."




• 6."I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important."




• 7."I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day."




• 8."I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself."




• 9."Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important."




• 10."There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers."




• 11."In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer."




• 12."I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years - I think you can allow me that at least."




• 13."You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life."




• 14."Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity."




• 15."Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage."