Quotes from Mohammad Amir

Pakistan fans are crazy about cricket.

At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong - everything seems to be good even if you know it's bad. So this is what I have learnt.

I want to be the best cricketer I can be for my country. If I work hard, the main aim for me is to be the world's best bowler.

I believe cricket suffered because of me. Fans were disheartened because of me. I want to make them happy and win them over again.

It has been an honour to represent Pakistan in the pinnacle and traditional format of the game. I, however, have decided to move away from the longer version so I can concentrate on white ball cricket.

Playing cricket in England is what I am looking forward to, and I would love to bowl at Lord's again.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

I want to thank all my team-mates as well as the opponents in red ball cricket. It has been a privilege to play with and against them.

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

At the end of the day, nobody drops a catch on purpose, and even the fielder gets frustrated. As a bowler, when a few catches are dropped, yeah, that is frustrating. But I think, ultimately, it's part of the game.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.

When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord's, to play with a club team who didn't have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.

The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I've said before, is something I'm working on.

As a fast bowler, if you are out of the game for five months, then that can be catastrophic, but to be out of the game for five years was very tough, and to make a comeback after such a lengthy period with no cricket behind me was a difficult ask.

Life was very tough, and there were times I thought I might not be able to play again.

Thanks to Allah, I trust myself to distinguish between right and wrong.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

What I had said was that as a cricketer, you have to take care of your body and look after your fitness levels, and someone altered that statement and quoted me as saying that I wanted to quit playing Test cricket. It's totally untrue, and as long as I am fit, I want to play in all formats.

I think the more cricket you play, the more you will learn about yourself and learn about life in general.

I know people madly in love with cricket; they got hurt, and they now should trust me only because I want to give back their love for cricket by performing. I want them to trust me because they lost something because of me, and I want to give back with my whole heart and soul.

I have toured New Zealand before and know they love the game, and they are so caring and loving, so I don't expect anything untoward from them.