Mickey Arthur

“I've had a great time coaching teams in these various T20 tournaments but that involvement obviously only lasts for a finite period. I just felt I was too young to be doing what I was doing.”

“I have never seen or heard anything to do with match-fixing in my time.”

“Fielding is about attitude and wanting to get out there and get it done.”

“When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.”

“Technically your best player should be batting at No. 3.”

“Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.”

“One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.”

“I am a big fan of the five-bowler strategy.”

“When I lost the job with Cricket Australia, I almost felt I had unfinished business to do. I felt that my reputation with South Africa and internationally had been very good. And then you lose your coaching job, it is tough. It kept me three years out of it.”

“It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.”

“I've got a very soft spot for Mohammad Amir. As a person and as a cricketer, I admire him greatly.”

“Make no mistake, I'm a huge admirer of Faheem Ashraf, and I said so in England.”

“Fitness is amplified in one-day cricket - fielding, running ones, twos, threes. Sometimes in an over you are running six twos. If you are not fit enough, you can't run those runs.”

“I'm going to give international cricket one more crack. The Pakistan job seems like a perfect fit.”

“I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.”

“PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) is doing an unbelievable job in trying to resurrect international cricket. I just hope the World XI tour goes ahead and that will almost be the curtain raiser to, hopefully, get some international cricket back.”

“I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.”

“I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.”

“When you get into Indian top-order, you can wreak havoc. It's paramount to rattle the Indian top-order, otherwise, they can hurt you.”

“Coaching England is a huge job, and no ambitious coach would rule himself out completely.”