Justin Langer Quotations

What South Africa should remember is that they can fire up the crowd and we can fire up the crowd, but all that matters is (the cricket).

Basically it's the first time the team has operated as a professional outfit,

I hardly knew any of the guys I was playing with, and the guys I was playing against I had just seen them on TV.

If we were to lose this series 3-1, worst-case scenario, I would look back on this and say it's the best series I've ever played in,

I was a bit nervous when to take it (the final power play). We got three wickets in that period where they probably went really hard and I think that was more significant than (what happened) at the end.

It is disappointing to miss a Test match but I have to consider the best interests of the team and whilst I continue pushing so hard to be right, I am not allowing myself to heal,

It is different from past injuries in that the bone is actually broken. I need to give it a break and allow it to mend so that I can be ready for the rest of the season.

Maybe that thing called pressure. We've all got this thing - the Ashes,

I wasn't willing to give them six points, and we got the two points which was a bonus.

We're all waiting with bated breath every time he bowls, ... All I know is that champions usually get up for these contests and I'd be surprised if he doesn't play. Don't ask him, because he'll tell you he's 100 per cent fit and he's never felt better.

We havent played well through this series but we've fought all the way and we're hanging in by the skin of our teeth. While you're still hanging in you're a chance to win a Test match.

When you play on a wicket that is spinning a lot like we saw in Melbourne, there is a lot of people around the bat and there's a lot happening.

Every high-profile performance for either England or Australia can only enhance the prospects of the Ashes later in the year.

At the time I was bitterly disappointed at the decision, but looking at it now I respect where they are coming from.

Errol's hopeful that if I give it seven days or so then it should be back to nearly normal. But it's not much fun at the moment.

That's not being arrogant, that's just a fact, ... With the experience and the statistics we've got in our change room we'll win Test matches.

You need to play late against swing and take singles and twos.

A bloke's bowling 150kph, trying to rip the fingers off your arms, or probably even worse,

For him to come out and say was very surprising as a modern-day player and for me, very disappointing and not in the spirit of how we should play Test cricket.

It may not be an important game for us, but we won our last one and while we're not in the hunt for the final it's important for us to keep the momentum going.

It's very painful, it feels like I've got barbed wire in my chest every time I run,

In cricket there is great tradition, particularly Test cricket, and as long as I've played the game the 12th man was usually one of the bowlers if one of your players goes off,

I know some of our guys are enjoying it, and some of them perhaps aren't because the results aren't quite there. We'll be better for it, individually and as a team, there's no doubt about that. To me it's a buzz to be in this situation.

If you don't experience either of those, it simply means that you are not playing.

In this day of professionalism it's just another way of getting the best out of the resources that are available and are within the rules, and we can't argue with it because it's within the rules.

If getting out for 99 is the worst thing that happens to me in my life, I'll take it,

He always tends to go across the left-hander,

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches,

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.

A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment