Jonny Bairstow Quotes

Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

Cricket can produce some amazing feelings on the field and I have been lucky enough to experience a few along the way.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

I am happy to lose spots on the IPL Fairplay award list, but I cannot see my team slipping on the points table.

Winning isn't all that matters.

I like to compete. So, any time I get to go live - which means go all out - that's what I like to do.

I enjoy the challenge of coming together with my teammates and playing well for them.

I think for anyone that plays the sport of football, when we find success, it just becomes very fun.

I just like to have fun on the field and make plays and have fun with my teammates.

In professional cricket, everybody wants to win.

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

As far as I am concerned, my priority is to perform well and win matches for India.

For me, I love competing.

That's the thing about basketball - you do good things and you start to get recognition.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. But I didn't realise how much it would affect me mentally. All that pressure. I was only 19; I still didn't know everything about taekwondo, I wasn't experienced. I just did amazing on that day and won.

I've always got the thrill of just putting on that uniform and going out there and playing.

I want good players around me because it's all about winning.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport