Shahid Afridi Quotes

My primary job is to score runs and make KKR win, and that's what I am trying to do. Rest, I don't think too much. That's how I have always played my game.

At the end of the day, you've got a job to do, and that's playing football.

Whether I lead or not, as a top order batsman I feel people expect a lot from me. I also expect that I do get runs and justify my place in the side as a top order batsman.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.

Once you get on the pitch you know you've got a job to do.

You're there to score runs. If you don't do that over a period of time, people will look elsewhere. That hasn't changed and that'll never change, whether it's myself or Jimmy Anderson, you've got to play to a certain level to be picked for England or even Essex.

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

My job is, as a player, to go out here and do my job.

It was a big surprise for me when they asked me to bat at three. That is a big thing. I was focussed on playing the situation. You need to be open anyway if you are playing for a team like India.

My job is to act, so I just focus on that.

Obey your purpose above all else.

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

My job is to win the game each and every week and that's what I want to do, and that's all I'm worried about.

My priority is to perform the job for which I am in the squad.

I have batted well in Tests and always wanted to do well in ODIs, too.

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

My role is to play out the full overs.

Kohli is the greatest chaser by far and I am saying this keeping in mind the great man Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin was special but as far as chasing is concerned, Kohli has done better than Sachin. Kohli is unreal.

My business is to come out here and play football.

I have a job to do, so I'm gonna do it.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Accountability is huge and everybody has a job to do on every play and that's the really only thing you focus on.

Work is my top priority.