My mother got the courage to speak to hundreds of people about her story. I knew if she could do it I could do it, too.

My motto is I'm going to go out and work every day no matter who is here. It's a mentality that I always play with since I've been playing football.

I would describe my style as refreshing.

I'm living the dream.

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, play Big Bash. Unfortunately representing the Proteas for the bulk of my career over Christmas time we've always got Test matches on, the Boxing Day and New Year's Test matches. So I haven't been available.

But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.

There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

If I wanted to do anything in the coaching world, I would probably need to upskill myself.

If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.

One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

I have never been a stats person.

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.

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.

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.