Shane Warne Quotes

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

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

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

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.

I love Sri Lanka. I played couple of Tests against India in 1991-92, in Australia, and then I came here for my first overseas tour in 1993.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

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.

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

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.

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.