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.
— Mickey Arthur
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 or the good things I did in my first year with Australia when I brought in a lot of young players and gave them opportunities and tried to build a team.
There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.
Some players listen with one ear only.
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.
If you can't field you can't play for Pakistan. It's as simple as that.
I like to think that every player who gets left out comes back with point to prove.
I love Pakistan so I will definitely use all my experience to inspire this team.
Coming to Pakistan has been unbelievable. It is the best thing of my career.
That unpredictability tag always sort of hangs around the Pakistan team, but that makes us very exciting as well.
It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.
I love coaching internationally because I can develop people, but it's hard to do that in the T20 environment.
I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.
I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.
I am so passionate about Pakistan cricket that I would never ever put myself in a position where there will be a conflict of interest.
I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.
I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.
I've had a great time coaching teams in these various T20 tournaments but that involvement obviously only lasts for a finite period. I just felt I was too young to be doing what I was doing.
Captains need to lead well and play within the laws of the game. There cannot be any compromise on that count.
Good teams are built on good values.
It's no easy task to coach the national team. I never realised to what extent one becomes the property of the people.
Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.
Australia always play their cricket really hard.
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 was a massive win and achievement because not many sides had come and won in Pakistan.
Unpredictable - that's a word that us as coaching staff hate.
I was not sceptical coming to Pakistan. I took the job because I was really excited about it.
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.
What I saw is Australia is very much an 'old boys' club. A lot of the ex-players carry a huge amount of weight and what they say, a lot goes, and that was the disappointing thing.
When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.
I was telling somebody the other day that I have had five semi-finals with South Africa and never got to a final. I got to one final with Pakistan and eventually got a medal!
Every time we play for Pakistan, we are playing to win.
I've got a very soft spot for Mohammad Amir. As a person and as a cricketer, I admire him greatly.
I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.
When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.
I'm going to give international cricket one more crack. The Pakistan job seems like a perfect fit.
I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.
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 unfair basis to end my career. The damage to my reputation and career has been immense, which means the chances of me getting a senior job are that much less.
I was always really worried about the conditions in India, especially with a group of young players. You can sit and you can tell players what it's like to play there, but until you've experienced it, you don't comprehend it.
I've never been a massive advocate of international Twenty20 cricket except a World Cup every two or three years, because that gets the best players together.
The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.
PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) is doing an unbelievable job in trying to resurrect international cricket. I just hope the World XI tour goes ahead and that will almost be the curtain raiser to, hopefully, get some international cricket back.
One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.
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 love it and that's how it should be.
There's pressure on each and every game.
I have never tried to hide my ambition to work in county cricket one day.
The backing I have received form the PCB is second to none. They have allowed me to do what I want to do for the best. I really think that we are on the right track. I am loving this Pakistan job.
Technically your best player should be batting at No. 3.
You ask the guys in the dressing room, I am a very bad loser.
To be able to close off a run chase or finish off when you are setting a target is a real skill.
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.
