“Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.”

I am an educationist. I’m an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

It’s not possible that women can be at par with men.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real.

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

We are not hungry. Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate.

The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They’re just my kind of people.