I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

Live within your means never be in debt and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt and become no mans surety.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.

No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves to their heroines - the only women strong enough to match them.

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.