My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss at the right time.

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. Its like riding a bicycle or typing. If youre willing to work at it you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

You can only accomplish extraordinary things by involving excellent people who can do things that you cannot.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

I have no regrets.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.