Mickey Arthur

“Fitness is amplified in one-day cricket - fielding, running ones, twos, threes. Sometimes in an over you are running six twos. If you are not fit enough, you can't run those runs.”

“Unpredictable - that's a word that us as coaching staff hate.”

“Gone are the days of just containing through the middle, gone are the days of just soaking up pressure. You've got to be able to take wickets.”

“I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.”

“That's part and parcel of touring England. You have to be very street smart and on your game. If you're not, the media and the ECB will have a field day with you.”

“I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I...”

“I'm going to give international cricket one more crack. The Pakistan job seems like a perfect fit.”

“I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.”

“When you get into Indian top-order, you can wreak havoc. It's paramount to rattle the Indian top-order, otherwise, they can hurt you.”

“At the end of the day, when you go on to Google everything is about the way you were sacked when you were in charge of Australia. It doesn't mention the good things I did with South Africa o...”

“I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an extent, I had been made 'a scapegoat.' I find that a totally...”

“I was not sceptical coming to Pakistan. I took the job because I was really excited about it.”

“Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.”

“It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.”

“You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.”

“I think Pakistan was always a destination where it was hard to come and win. I was the coach of the South African team which came here in 2007. We won the Test and one-day series and that wa...”

“For Pakistan cricket to stay relevant and strong, the best players have to be available all the time - it's a challenge faced by everyone, but one that particularly relates to us because of...”

“There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.”

“That unpredictability tag always sort of hangs around the Pakistan team, but that makes us very exciting as well.”