Yuvraj sledging pietersen autobiography

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.

"I've seen 5-0 a few times before...it's not the end of the world, Brazil!"

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

"I might as well have been speaking to the vicar about gangsta rap."

Pietersen, writing in his autobiography about the difficulty of explaining his IPL commitments to Andrew Strauss

"It was as if he still writes to Santa Claus and puts a tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy."