The World Motivation
What people don't understand is... because I became captain of Australia, I have no say in who gets a contract. Simon Katich was not dropped from a team when I was captain of Australia or when I was a selector.
“What people don't understand is... because I became captain of Australia, I have no say in who gets a contract. Simon Katich was not dropped from a team when I was captain of Australia or when I was a selector.”
What people don't understand is... because I became captain of Australia, I have no say in who gets a contract. Simon Katich was not dropped from a team when I was captain of Australia or when I was a selector.
I've always said the game owes me nothing, I owe it everything. I'm thankful I've been able to play it for so long.
When I look back, I don't know how to put into words how much I owe the game of cricket - it changed my life, made my life and helped mould me into the man I am today.
I'm a very organised guy.
I think I'm extremely lucky to have been able to go through a separation with the mother of my child and us still be great friends.
I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like, I'm from Australia, my Mum's Aussie, and I grew up with five other Aussie brothers and sisters.
My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three years bumming around the country in an old '61 VW van. We put the kids in school wherever we happened to be, but mainly we reveled in being rootless.