Shane Warne Quotes (69 Quotes)

I'm not a big stats man but my stats over the last couple of years bowling on day one, two and three, stand up to any stage in my career,

Gamesmanship, banter, trash talk, sledging... whatever you call it, has been part of cricket for a long time. We will play hard to win and anybody who plays us will be tested both physically and mentally. If they aren't up to it, we'll win easily.

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

Every time there's been a script written, I've just about done it. I suppose I'm allowed one that I don't get every now and then.

The numbers have been pretty good, ... But however well I've been bowling and batting, that's irrelevant now. Now everything comes down to one match, and for me these are the situations I thrive on.

For the first time it will be us chasing England and it is a different mindset. England will have to come to Australia and try to retain them.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

A clean sweep is a realistic dream in the coming years,

Over the last few years especially there haven't been a lot of five-day Test matches, so you're not exploiting the conditions late (in the) fourth day and fifth day,

I think he would be the first to say he had a bit of luck, ... He hung in there and toughed it out, which is one of the hallmarks of the series.

I think he's a class player. He's proven he's one of the best fast bowlers for as long as we've been playing and I'm sure he'll be in the World Cup and lead the attack as he always has and do well. He's a big-match player, when the World Cup comes around McGrath will take the new rock and do extremely well. I don't think there's any doubt about Glenn McGrath being there.

I thought David Fulton actually understood the game, but he must dislike us totally to go and hand someone the championship like that,

The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.

I enjoyed living in England but I have to weigh up the whole package, the travel and so on,

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.

At the moment we're still the best side in the world,

Where it came from I don't know. But if people are trying to unsettle me personally and the team all together through the newspapers, it won't work. We'll be looking into this article in particular and taking it from there.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

I don't know about a changing of the guard, but it might be time for changes,

There's a lot of thick green grass on it, and it's pretty hard.

The one thing about South Africa over all the years we have been playing with them is they have a lot of discipline with their batting and bowling. That's one of their strengths. Their weakness is they don't have much imagination or variety in their attack. There is not a lot of imagination with their captaincy.

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I haven't seen them for a lengthy period of time in the last 10 months and I really am missing them.

There are two ways of looking at it, like a heavyweight title fight if Bangladesh beat Australia in a one-day game they'd be the best side in the world,

Nor, he tried to insist, would the series' epic quality. If we don't win I won't enjoy it, ... As a Test cricketer - and I've played 120-odd 126 - the series you remember are the close ones. A two-day Test against Zimbabwe or Bangladesh is not that enjoyable. Going to India and being tested in their conditions, playing South Africa, playing England the way they are playing now - they are the series people remember. As players you want to be tested. You don't want easy games. At the moment everybody is being tested. A Test match is a test of your technique, your patience, a test of everything about you.

But England have not achieved greatness yet, nor Australia not lost this test of character. I think we have come though pretty well in tough situations, ... We batted against the wall and made 379.

It was a pretty good day, I think we are just probably slightly ahead,

Criticism is never nice, but you accept it because it comes with the territory. Stories that are completely unsubstantiated and untrue are another matter,

I hope they don't let Brett Lee anywhere near it a portrait of himself with a black pen because I might end up with a moustache like Merv Hughes's

South Africa showed a lot of fight out there, and in the end we probably wanted it just a little more.

I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

If you're doing well it doesn't matter how old you are, ... There was all that stuff at the beginning of the series about how we wouldn't be able to stand up to back-to-back Tests. I'm the oldest in the side and I've done OK so that's rubbish.

When we go to South Africa it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and nail us. They have to expect Australian crowds to nail them but the racist stuff is not on. I am disappointed that has happened, if it has, and hopefully it stops.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

The pressure's on us as far as I'm concerned. We have to play well for five days. If we don't play well, for the first time in nearly 20 years, we've lost the Ashes. Hopefully that'll make us respond and the guys will soak it up and see it as a challenge rather than fear it.

I'm not sure I can go that long. We'll wait and see.

It's been played in really good spirit, ... Everybody's clapped everyone's runs, wickets, clapped people off. I think I've been one of the most aggressive players to play. I like throwing the ball at batsmen's heads and things like that all the time and I enjoy that, but you can also play in the right spirit.

I think they will be disappointed they are not 2-1 up. I think the pressure is on England and not Australia. At the end of the day, they have to win. We only have to win one (of the last two tests).

This ground has special memories for me. I have never lost a Test match here and there have been some pretty special individual moments for me here as well,

We've had a pretty good day, I think we're just slightly ahead,

He should worry about getting a good wicket and keeping quiet.

You've got an exciting 22-year-old kid who is bursting at the seams and hitting blokes on the head left, right and centre.