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There have been a few times when I wondered if I was ever going to take a wicket, but you never give up.
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Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.
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I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I'm addicted to that feeling.
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Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.
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From the moment I became an established international cricketer I always had a strong feeling that I should be doing some 'good' while I had that profile, using it to try and make a difference.
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I want to be a good cricketer, but I am a person first and a cricketer second. I won't always be a cricketer, but I will always be a person.
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I'm lucky because not only do I have the chance to experience the thrill of winning, but I also get to bowl really fast. Those two things are the best feelings in the world, better than any drugs - not that I've tried any.
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I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.
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With my work schedule, it's difficult for me to spend quality time with my dogs. But whenever I'm home, I make it a point to spend as much time as possible with my dogs.
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I have four dogs - Sadi, a Retriever, and Oscar, Ruby and Bella, who are Yorkies.
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If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.
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AB de Villiers is probably my favorite cricketer, he is an incredible batter and a good friend.
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In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.
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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.
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The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.
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I love playing cricket. I wake up every morning and I can't see myself doing anything else.
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I want to keep experimenting and trying to change my game.
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If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.
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As long as that drive is still there to play at the highest level, to get batters out, fox them and outsmart them and that kind of stuff, if I can do that I'm going to continue to do that.
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If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.
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In South Africa, you can get away sometimes because of the bounce. You may get away with full wide balls. In India, it does not bounce and finds the middle of the bat and goes flying to point or extra cover for four.
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You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.
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I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.
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If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.
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In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.
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Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.
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Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.
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I have never been a stats person.
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It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.
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One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.
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You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.
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With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.
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If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.
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If I wanted to do anything in the coaching world, I would probably need to upskill myself.
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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.
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There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.
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I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.
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The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.
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But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.
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The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.
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