You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.

- Mike Brearley

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

- Mike Brearley

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the fro…

- Mike Brearley