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Kevin Pietersen's career was as thrill-a-minute as it gets on the field, and off it his candor and tendency to never mince his words led The Times' Rick Broadbent to quip that he was "as subtle as colonic irrigation". KP has uttered, and been the subject of, so many memorable lines that it could be a sub-genre on our Quote Unquote section. Here is a selection of his most unforgettable quotes. Kevin Pietersen tweeted out a consolatory message for Brazil's football team after their 7-1 loss to Germany in the World Cup semi-final Pietersen, writing in his autobiography about the difficulty of explaining his IPL commitments to Andrew Strauss On Alastair Cook refusing to believe that the (now defunct) @kpgenius Twitter parody account was run by someone within the England dressing room. KP struggled with the arithmetic while describing why he had to miss a 2005 tour to Sri Lanka Pietersen sledging Yuvraj Singh during England's tour of India in 2008. The stump mic was alert Liberty X singer and future wife Jessica Taylor, on then-fiance Pietersen On former England coach Peter Moores, during whose tenure Pietersen's England career came to a close.  Long before the first-ever day-night Test, Pietersen declared that he was not a big fan of the innovation If you can't stop them, become them: Pietersen had some advice for county bowlers before the 2013 season Pietersen did not envy Pietersen in the middle of all the controversy within the England dressing room in 2012, which led to a brief exile from international cricket Graeme Smith and KP never got along too well, and neither made any bones about it Aussie-baiting remained one of KP's favourite pastimes through his career  Pietersen's response to John Buchanan's criticism about his personality could as well have come from his friend Shane Warne's mouth Long before his foray into punditry, Pietersen did not take kindly to criticism from the Sky commentary team After a huge loss in an ODI against India in 2008, Pietersen put his competitive nature in perspective  Bruce Dickinson, the Iron Maiden lead singer, with his thoughts on England's newly appointed captain back in 2008 Andy Flower copped quite a bit of stick in KP's autobiography, especially this Zlatan-Ibrahimovic-on-Pep-Guardiola style takedown Pietersen offered a sneak peek into what was to come, just 24 hours ahead of his captaincy debut for England. What KP told Paul Collingwood after unveiling his switch hit against New Zealand Pietersen revealed the extent of his Englishness, after stating in an interview that he gets sent pictures of naked women by fans As early as July 2005, Andrew Strauss offered a taste of all that was to follow Pietersen's frank admission in 2009, about a format in which he would go on to make 5695 runs
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