Beneath the surface of the ocean that is Dale

24 April 2015 - 02:02 By Arun Venugopal

Proteas fast bowler Dale Steyn sat down with ESPNCricinfo's Arun Venugopal. You have this obsessive love for fast bowling. Is it just adrenaline, or something deeper, more spiritual?"Everybody has adrenaline. I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do. Not a lot of people can run in and bowl really fast, you know. So that's a nice thing, knowing that you are part of a small percentage of people in the world who are able to do that."There must have been times when the fame and riches went to your head?"No, it never gets to the head, man. Because I have never seen myself as anybody like that. Never ever seen myself as anybody that's famous."You have been in a long-standing relationship?"No, I haven't. I was [once] in a long-standing relationship. Not everything is true on Google."How challenging is it to nurture relationships?"I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen who travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be."It's tough. I'm also somebody that's free-spirited. I never really know what the schedule is."How do you cope with loneliness on tour?"What I have decided now is that when I am going [on] these tours I'll bring people over. I have had family come to India before."What are the best cricketing conversations you have had?"There's been many, man. The best ones are after wins and after losses. Around fires, drunk, or in the Jacuzzi, drunk, at three in the morning."I don't know, man. They happen all the time"Why do you describe yourself as an ocean?"I think the ocean is amazing. It can be flat and still and quiet and calm, and then in the worst seas it can be scary. It's got that ability to change very quickly."When I am off the field I am the calm, quiet ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in. "..

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