Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.
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.
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.
Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball