Andrew Symonds Quotations

I said if you just keep on talking, because it was one of those days you can easily get annoyed and get a little bit frustrated so we had to keep talking to each other.

I was more relaxed. I felt ready to take up the challenge and wasn't nervous.

We haven't been pushed to three games for many years and Sri Lanka are a credit to themselves.

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut

Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.

It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.

We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I don't know why he did it or why people do, it's up to them really. But it was a nice gesture, I suppose.

We'll just wait and see. If it gets out of hand it gets out of hand, we're just here to play cricket.

The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

It's a tricky game and to be able to contribute in an important session like that felt good.

It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel good even if I was scoring runs. It was a great relief. Hopefully, I can draw some confidence from my bowling and flow through to my batting here.

I had to bite the bullet and be brave and try and play my way and things went fairly well today.

I just felt it was an important time of the game and to be contributing at that stage of the game would have made me feel good anyway, even if I had been scoring runs, so it was a great relief as well.

I didn't feel like it (the thigh muscle) was going to go again so it's feeling pretty good. It's been one of those ones we had to be pretty careful with because if I did it again it probably would have been the end of my tour.