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• ‟ In cricket, you should keep your wrist as straight as possible, unlike golf.

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• ‟ Yes, golf is a weird game. I was capable of dealing with moving and bouncing cricket balls, but this little silly ball, sitting on the ground, gave me quite a headache early on for few years, but taught me how to be disciplined in controlling the ball.

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• ‟ After cricket I'd love to build a family, I'd love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into something special.

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• ‟ I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say 'I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket.'

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• ‟ After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

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• ‟ My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

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• ‟ I don't see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about cricket. Not just batting but cricket in general and I am ready to impart with any information or advice I have.

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• ‟ When I was 21, I did not have that much pressure. I was sitting down on the bench... you know... cleaning Sir Vivian Richards's boots or doing something... getting ready to play international cricket.

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• ‟ MS Dhoni would know what's best for him. He has served Indian cricket very well.

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• ‟ I really enjoyed the period in which I played my cricket. I can look back now and wish I started 10 years later and played in the T20s. But I also wish I was born 10 years earlier so that I could have been part of the all-conquering West Indies team of that time.

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• ‟ Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

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• ‟ KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he's made for.

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• ‟ With all franchise cricket going on around in the world, the intensity of the game, sometimes is a burden.

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