Moeen Ali Quotes

Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.

It's always frustrated me when I've seen other players able to smack balls over the bowler's head and stuff like that. I can't, though. When I've tried I've let myself down.

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

In tennis ball cricket, even it's hit from the toe of the bat, the ball still travels a lot, but in normal cricket, it has to be the middle part of the bat, so it requires a lot of work.

It doesn't matter whether you move your feet or not; if your head is still and body is in balance, you can score lots of runs. This I learned from Tendulkar.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

If you're free of mechanical thoughts and free of knowing that your body and bat are going to be in the right position at the right time, you can freely focus on the ball. It's a great feeling.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

With the new ball, against any bowler, it's important to see off the first few overs.

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.

For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.

Pull and sweep are two shots which can help me score runs outside India. These are two shots that can immediately put pressure back on bowlers.

I don't like to follow someone, but I really like A B de Villiers as a batsman. I think he has got all the strokes and plays according to the situation.

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.