Alastair Cook Quotes

What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn't define a player's career.

The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions - that will come if I am playing consistently well for Everton.

PSG wanted to sign me. For me, it was confirmation that I am on the right track and was in a good spell. My heart told me I had to stay at PSV where I still have things to achieve.

The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from relationships you have around the league throughout all the different interactions that you have.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple as reading another book each month or attending a seminar each year. On the other hand, it also means acknowledging what 'average' actually is and how you, as the owner, arrive at that figure.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

Any chance a rookie gets to go play in the playoffs, that should be a boost going into summer league. That should be a boost for the rest of your career. That's something that a lot of rookies can't say they did.

I don't want to build a reputation for just being able to take long throws.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

When you look at the work you do every day, you do see things. But if you look at the work you did for 25 years, suddenly you start to get a more complete picture.

I hope I can develop here in the Premier League, and I hope I can be like those great legends one time in my career.

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

It's true that I had two different offers from Chinese football, but I stayed in England in order to give myself the opportunity. To go there would have been the easiest way, because it was a great offer, but I wanted to stay.

His potential is greater and higher than Everton as a final destination. If Romelu was to play at Everton until the end of his career I know he has left something behind.

To compare players at different stages in their career shouldn't happen.

I didn't set out specifically to be a manager, but once you end up in that role you want to be measured against the best in the profession.

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.

I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

I like people who genuinely are looking for a project and not a job.

What's important is to do good work and interesting roles.

My idea is to return to Spanish football, I want to play for a big club in La Liga, that would be great for my career.