James Anderson Quotes

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

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

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I'm sure Jofra Archer will be loving heading into his first World Cup. He is in the dressing room as he comes across on the field - laidback and very confident in his ability.

I always believe I will take wickets.

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

As a bowler, there are times when you do not get wickets, and you don't have the numbers to show against your name. But never has the thought crossed my mind that I am not a confident bowler and the wickets are not coming my way.

I don't like false modesty.

Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world.

Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.

I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.

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

I would love to do a biopic on a bowler like Zaheer Khan or Harbhajan Singh. I would love to see their struggles on screen.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

I promise you, I'm fake sometimes, but other times I'm like, dude sit down.