Alastair Cook Quotes

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets.

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.

I'm grown up enough to realise how to play cricket. I love the game.

Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

Cricket is my first love.

Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

You have got to field well. If you don't bat well, you can still make a difference by fielding well. There are times I have played games just because of my fielding.

Fifty overs is a long time. It's a good challenge, and you have enough time to show your skills.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It's a game of bat and ball.

I just like to enjoy my cricket.

I would like to believe that I would have made a good cricketer.

I just enjoy batting, scoring runs, and contributing for my team.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

I think a lot when I'm on my own - and much of it is about cricket.