When I first started the biggest thing I wanted was for the opposition to acknowledge me.

When I made my one-day debut for South Africa I met some of the Aussies for the first time. We lost the game and when I shook the hands of players I just wanted them to look me in the eye and acknowledge I had competed.

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

South African cricket, we're pretty resilient.

Sport can take a back seat, your health is the most important.

There's so much in favor of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on.

What inspiration will other fast bowlers have if they don't have anybody to inspire them to become fast bowlers.

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

I want to play Test cricket until I die, seriously.

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

Pace is the most important thing. That is the one thing that I have had throughout my whole career.

When you're playing against a team like India you're always going to struggle, especially as they bat all the way down the order to No. 9 and 10.

I never want to restrict myself and say I'm at my ultimate peak, I'm always looking to take myself to a higher level.

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

I will play until I can't play anymore.

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.

For me, I need to bowl lots of overs in order to start getting back into form - much like a batsman needs to hit a lot of balls.

Lord's is a special place. I used to love watching games there as a youngster and I've been fortunate enough to play a couple of games there.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.

Steve Smith is a marvelous player.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.

There have been a few times when I wondered if I was ever going to take a wicket, but you never give up.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I'm addicted to that feeling.

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.

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.

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.

I love winning. Maybe it's more that I hate losing?

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

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.

If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.

AB de Villiers is probably my favorite cricketer, he is an incredible batter and a good friend.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

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.

The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I love playing cricket. I wake up every morning and I can't see myself doing anything else.

I want to keep experimenting and trying to change my game.

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.

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.

If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.

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.

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.

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.