Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connolly

When you get away from selecting your best players, that's when you have problems. Australia demands you pick your best in a Test team. It's different at a lower level, then sometimes other factors come into it, but a Test team should be your best available.

With commodity prices up strongly, and with the likelihood of the resources boom persisting for many months to come, it is hard to see Australia escaping without the need for higher interest rates.

With the Australian dollar now trading just below 75 US cents, we only need a US dollar gold price of around $US573 per ounce to break the record which has stood for 26 years.

Jeff Goodell

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.

Duncan Fletcher

We will look to see who will need a rest before going to Australia and we will make plans accordingly.

We will be working as a team over the next few years to help raise the profile, awareness and funding for the Royal Flying Doctor Service through the Australian cricket network so they can continue to help Australians in need.

Julia Gillard

We of course remember the days when the leader of the house was the bovver boy, stand over man of Australian politics, now he's just pathetic and this is just a pathetic resolution moved to try and guillotine this debate through this House from a minister who only yesterday ... was complaining about debate being guillotined.

We (West Indies) are due to visit England for Tests and One-Day matches immediately after the World Cup , so it was impossible to fit in the Australia tour. We are hoping to play four Tests in England that summer.

We don't make the rules, we interpret them. Since that day he has been free to try to make the Australian team, the same as everyone else.

Frank Lowy

We have (got assurances from the Greek football federation) that the best team will come from Greece and we will (also) have the Australian team in full swing.

We wanted to celebrate not only Australia but also the spirit of rugby, a spirit which transcends national boundaries,

John Wallace

We've had more success than they (scientists in Australia and New Zealand) have. Everyone has been trying different methods. We just got lucky.

Nick Heidfeld

This season's Australian Grand Prix will certainly have a rather different feel about it. To start with, the race has been put back due to the Commonwealth Games, so there won't be that extra buzz you get when it's the first race of the season.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We all know Australia have a strong team and have been playing very good cricket over the years.

There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.

Kylie Minogue

Ultimately, yes, it's my name and I have to deliver the goods. But it doesn't happen without a team. So I try and work with the best people I can.

Various locations around the globe are experiencing the same weather patterns. Australia is experiencing the same thing. We don't know what needs to change.

Donny Schatz

We're pumped up and ready to get back racing. Australia has been very, very good to me over the years. I've worked as hard as I ever have to get a good situation for me over there.

Why is Greg Norman not doing something to help the Australian circuit,

To me she represents the Australian spirit. She doesn't give up, she's tough like nails, she's in the business of performance.

Brian O'Driscoll

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Imogen Heap

On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

When my number was called for first place, my mother held up the Australian flag so high and the cheers were overwhelming from the crowd, ... The news is being well received back in Australia, too. We've won on three continents.

Richard Boucher

We will continue to work with the German and the Australian embassies in Islamabad and continue to press the Taliban for information about the status of investigation of the detainees and on how the case might proceed under the Taliban legal system.

We thought Perth was where we could get stuck in but we missed our opportunities there. If we had scored 'big' after bowling them out for 258, we could have put Australia under pressure but we also dropped catches. They weren't easy chances but you have to hang on to them if you want to beat a quality side like Australia.

There is no place in Australian cricket for racism, whether it be on or off the field.

Until that happens the crews will be held in Darwin facilities or if appropriate taken to Baxter in South Australia or Perth.

Dave Thomas

Peace Software emerged the clear leader from our rigorous selection process based on its successful track record in the Australian market, the rich functional footprint of the Peace 8 product, and a clearly defined product roadmap.

Over recent years it has been subdued import prices that have mostly helped to keep a lid on Australian inflation.

O. Henry

Our selection reflects that we respect Australian rugby and the Australian team and we all know it will be a hard game at the weekend.

Craig James

Our view is that the Australian share market is overdue for a correction.

Peter Singer

I might well have written a different book in some respects had I been writing it now. But I wouldn't really go back on things I had said.

We now have people drinking Australian wine. The task of the industry now is to keep those people drinking it and not moving on to the next great thing. We can produce what the customer wants, but we need to know what they are after.