I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.
I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.
My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.
Fairness matters.
A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.
Anybody can have a dip in form.
I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.
I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'
Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.
Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.
Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed.
It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.
In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.
There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.
My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.
There's little that's subtle about Hardus Viljoen - he's a broad-chested, broad-shouldered fast bowler, who simply trundles up to the wicket and hurls it down as fast as possible.
