It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.
I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
You can't put a limit anything.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.
The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I'm riding the same board the whole time. Something will just set off and it just feels like you can push just that extra bit harder.
I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.
One man cannot make a team.
You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.
Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
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