Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.
Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.
I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.
I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.
The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.
If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.
When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.
I want to bowl fast till I retire.
There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.
I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.
That's a beautiful thing about India, they got such a big pool of players to call upon. If somebody gets injured, the replacements are generally pretty good.
If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.
I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.
If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.
It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!
There have been a few times when I wondered if I was ever going to take a wicket, but you never give up.
The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.
You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.
I'm lucky because not only do I have the chance to experience the thrill of winning, but I also get to bowl really fast. Those two things are the best feelings in the world, better than any drugs - not that I've tried any.
World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.
