152 Quotes by Graeme Smith

We have come here with a different mindset and being more aggressive tomorrow is the way we are going to go. We are not going to try and be steady and more defensive, we are going to be more aggressive.

We have come here a little bit more open and enthusiastic, and open to advice and to see things. We have really enjoyed ourselves here. We are as best prepared as we can be.

With the Cricket World Cup just more than a year away, South Africa hopes to use the series against Australia to iron out flaws and gear them up for the event.

We came out here expecting a lot of verbal in the papers and things being said. If anything they have been under more pressure than us going into this test match. We have just got on with what we have been doing. We have been very focussed on the things we have been able to control which is our preparation.

We needed one partnership in the top five. One decent partnership would have got us home.

We needed one good partnership in our top five. It was a definitely gettable total. Polly and AB showed what was needed.

You don't need me to tell you the obvious.

We want to keep the momentum we picked up with that win over Australia.

We are always going to put the pressure on the likes of (Shane) Watson and Johnson and Lewis.