Steve Waugh

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.