Quotes About Maturity

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

One of the coolest things is going to another country and learning their culture and learning how to be a grownup.

When I was younger, I was like, 'I'm working now, and you go work.' That was all I knew, because I was trying to keep my head above water. Now I'm more willing to say, 'Let's do our work side by side and cooperate.' That's really difficult to do in this sport sometimes because it can be so individualized.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

I'm 32 this year so I'm experienced, I know how it is: sometimes you do very easy things and sometimes you can do crazy things that you don't understand. It's just to be focused on the hard work. For me, that's always the No 1 thing.

That is the beauty of doing something when you're older. It doesn't matter what anyone else says because you're not doing it to build credibility.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

All I can say is it's improper to criticize someone 30 years later.

I've been sexy for a while. Ever since I crossed 30, women have started taking me seriously.

I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I'm blessed with being quite secure - not necessarily about my looks, but if someone says, 'I don't like what you're wearing,' I am never going to go and cry about it. I think that does come with age, though.

If there are some losses that you take, then we're all big boys - we shouldn't be crying.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.