When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.

More Quotes by Dale Steyn

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.

I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.