 But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them. |
| If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience. |
| Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament. |
| I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. |
| I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. |
| In Pakistan politics is hereditary. |
| And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure. |
| The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day. |
| One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy. |
| Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible. |
| There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. |
| During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe. |
| Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. |
| In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. |
| But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. |
| What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations. |
| Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. |
| I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam. |
| At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. |
| So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win. |
