A biography for Steve Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“Look, I admire Virat a lot. He is an amazing player.”
“I've copied a bit of what AB de Villiers does. The way I go back and across to open myself up and set myself for the shots.”
“I'm not a huge drinker.”
“It really gave me a lot of confidence to know that I could score runs against some really good bowlers.”
“A Boxing Day Test match is a fantastic occasion.”
“I think the higher you can bat in your Shield team, if you're doing well there the better off you're going to be for batting anywhere in the Test line-up or any of the line-ups.”
“A bit of a verbal challenge actually makes me switch on a bit more and gets me in for the fight.”
“For me it's about being adaptable wherever we play.”
“People say I am a little bit weird with the way I go about things, it's a fine line.”
“We don't go out there to try and lose games of cricket, we go out there to try and win and play the best way we can.”
“I think and visualise before I play where people are likely to bowl to me and where I am likely to score and try to picture fields that are set and play things over in my mind, where I am going to get runs and how they are looking to get me out.”
“I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.”
“My job is to score runs and hopefully I can continue to do that.”
“Selectors are there to do a job. They pick what they see as best for the team.”
“An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers - and English cricketers for that matter - and there's always that added pressure.”
“I'd love to play every game.”
“I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.”
“To be dropped is not a nice thing.”
“I think that's the way we play our best cricket, when we're aggressive, we're in the fight together, we're hunting as a pack as one and we're working for each other and backing our mates up on the field. That's part of being an Australian, in my opinion.”
“There has been a lot of talk of the four-day Tests but I like five-days. I don't make the decisions of how it all works out but five-day Tests is what it is all about.”