From Cricinfo.com

"Playwrights, composers, sculptors, thinkers and artists may pass through various stages, exploring their gift, challenging orthodoxy, reaching high, sinking low and then emerging with something gained and the world still at their feet. Although suffering from a sense of impending doom, as all such talents must, they know that the future spreads out before them and that they can continue to pursue their gift till they breathe their last. It is a privilege unknown in sport....Tomorrow does not exist in athletic endeavours. Sportsmen must find their truest expression at once. They are exposed and then eliminated before life's taxes have been paid..."

Fade to Grey, Peter Roebuck, May 2006