30 Quotes by Dean Jones

He is a great player on as well as off the field and a perfect gentleman. The captaincy has come to him at the right time. He is handling the pressure very professionally.

He's just got to get back to thinking he's at the MCG of old, wearing a Victorian cap, and no-one's at the ground, and just play.

He's been carrying that elbow injury for a long time and he selfishly went right to the last minute to try to get himself in that team. If he wants to do another fitness test two days out from the fifth Test, I'll kick his bum because it's distracting everyone.

I think it is time to name Freddie as one-day captain. He is one guy who has not dropped his performance one bit.

Just because you can play the game doesn't always mean you can coach it, but Brett can flat out coach. He emerged as the best candidate and there was a lot of support behind him. We felt like this was the best fit for us.

I was brought up to think that if you stuff up when you're older, you're gone, and someone else would replace you. The guys are hanging on, and I don't blame them for that, but we've got to have some tough selectors to make some tough decisions.

We're working with industry to find out what should be the content and then determine how much it will cost.

We played poorly in the first five innings. We just have to put things together, so far we haven't done that. If we're going to be a team, we need to put some things together. If we do that, we may be competitive.

Well, I think people are sort of scared because gas is so expensive.