Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Virat Kohli is someone I have great respect for.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

It's a cliche that cricket is the only unifying force in the Caribbean. It is but there are a lot of other factors that keep us apart. Success in sport and war will always unite but you need to have a greater foundation and greater core.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World - Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I first took up golf in 1994, and used to play intermittently. I couldn't devote as much time to it as I would've liked.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Having a decent place to live is fundamental for families.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself strongly.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

MS Dhoni would know what's best for him. He has served Indian cricket very well.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I would like to be remembered as someone who came out there and tried to entertain.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

Every time I go out into the middle I say I have to give 100 per cent, and I do.

Brian Lara
Brian Lara

I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.