Glenn McGrath Quotes

It's true that I have got wickets with the new ball in Test matches, but that doesn't mean that I can't bowl with the old ball.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

Lord's is a special place. I used to love watching games there as a youngster and I've been fortunate enough to play a couple of games there.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

The best player I've played with would be Graeme Swann, just because he's proved that regular finger-spinners can take wickets in international cricket for England.

There is no doubt that Nathan Lyon is a great spinner but so were Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Graeme Swann.

I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make sure you can contribute regardless of the format.

It's surreal to think that no one has played as many Test matches for England. I suppose it's a credit to my longevity.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.

It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.

I enjoy playing Test cricket, especially against India in India.

I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world's leading scorers, I don't see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn't do it, nor Muhammad Yousuf.

Big wins in the first Test of an Ashes series polarise everything moving forward.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.

Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.

Michael Atherton's powers of concentration never cease to amaze me. When you need reminding what Test-match batting is all about, who else would you have at the other end?

I heard a lot about Ian Botham's Ashes, in 1981. Everybody still talks about his performance.