Dale Steyn

“It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!”

“I will play until I can't play anymore.”

“You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.”

“But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.”

“I think 'A' sides are extremely important, as close as you can get to international cricket. You are often playing against internationals from different countries and it definitely bridges the gap between our domestic game and international cricket.”

“I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.”

“When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.”

“I want to bowl fast till I retire.”

“One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.”

“I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.”

“Normally if I am on holiday I'll be planning a fishing trip or a surfing trip.”

“When I made my one-day debut for South Africa I met some of the Aussies for the first time. We lost the game and when I shook the hands of players I just wanted them to look me in the eye and acknowledge I had competed.”

“I have never been a stats person.”

“I come across as quite aggressive and quite in people's faces and everything like that, but I know where to draw the line.”

“There's so much in favor of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on.”

“Test matches are what really drive me to perform.”

“The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.”

“It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.”

“Pace is the most important thing. That is the one thing that I have had throughout my whole career.”

“Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.”