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So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.