Australian Sports Figure Quotes

Don Bradman

Pat Cash

Dawn Fraser

Shane Warne

Richie Benaud

John Peers

Bruce Djite

There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow
When the world is free.

Bowl fast, bowl faster. When you play Test cricket you don't give Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

He [Arjun Nair] started as a batsman and the bowling took over, now he's picking up the batting again, which is good because it is important he offers something [more] than his bowling. Finger spin in Australia is challenging at the best of times and you just have to give yourself more opportunities to be selected. In this professional age it is important he offers as much as possible to maximise the number of opportunities he gets. Fielding is another aspect, like all young cricketers. Arjun needs to make sure he nails that because you can't afford any deficiencies if you want to break through.

My goal is to play for Australia in all three formats of the game

This has been a big incident, hasn't in. In reality, James Anderson was a B-grade bowler who got his arse-whipped by Australia that many times it's not even funny. Frankly I don't care what he has to say but at least he has improved his bowling, thank goodness

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

I don't want to speak to you, Mr. Warner. Of two teams out here one is playing cricket, the other is making no effort to play the game of cricket. It is too great a game to spoil by the tactics you are adopting. I don't approve of them and never will.

To the cricket team manager, of the bodyline controversy

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

I never wanted to play for any other country but Australia. I learned my football in Australia. I'm Australian.

It's me versus Mother Nature and me versus me. I want to see how far a human can fly with six kilograms of high-tech nylon over his head with no engine. Ultimately though, I love being able to fly like a bird.

Godfrey Wenness

'Practice makes perfect' is bullshit. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I hated the easy assumption that girls had to be slower than boys.

A publisher's view:

It's just called 'The Bible' now. We dropped the word 'Holy' to give it a more mass-market appeal.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport—you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.