James Anderson Quotes

I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

The start of the English county season - from April to mid-May when it's cold - is the same as South Africa because it seams and swings. After that, the ball starts spinning nicely, and that's when I get my wickets.

As bowlers, we don't worry about the wickets, whether they are flat or not.

The Kookaburra is the toughest ball to bowl with.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

Those first few overs are obviously the most difficult time because you don't know what the ball is going to do in the air and off the seam.

As a bowler, you want to go and bowl in helpful conditions in South Africa, England, and Australia. But it is also important to bowl in the right areas, and they differ from bowler to bowler, depending on conditions and the opposition.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.

I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

There are times I do single wicket bowling, and there are times I try, practise, hitting a specific length.

The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.

I might be six foot six but that doesn't mean I can play a Steve Harmison role and bounce people out.

I sometimes get someone to bowl at me from closer than the usual 22 yards so when I then go and play on a normal-sized pitch, everything feels easier.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.