Matthew Hayden Quotes

#1. Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

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#2. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

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#3. Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

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#4. How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

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#5. 60Sachin Tendulkar is a god in India and people believe that luck shines in his hand.

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#6. This game is something Australians really look forward to.

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#7. Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

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#8. When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

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#9. My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.

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#10. It's a very special venue and a very special occasion.

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#11. As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.

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#12. All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid's eyes

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#13. It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

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#14. One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

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#15. I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests

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