Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I had always said I will like to play for Milan at some stage in my career, so when the opportunity came up, I grabbed it with both hands.

I'd love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

I just want to do the best I can, which means hopefully play for the full England side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.

I've played at a European Championship; to represent your country at a World Cup is every boy's dream, and for me, it would definitely be a dream come true.

I know what it is like when a player has big ambitions.

To have played for England was my ultimate ambition, and to do so at four World Cups and represent Team GB at a home Olympics was beyond the wildest dreams I had when first starting out.

I couldn't see playing for England at all. I had other goals at the time when I was a mortgage advisor and had different goals when I was playing non-league football.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

Captaining South Africa was definitely not one of my goals.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of wearing the Selecao shirt in a World Cup.

The minute Juventus came calling, I knew it was the right choice for me. They have the same winning mentality as me.

It was a dream to play the World Cup and I will play for sure in the future.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

Would I have preferred not to play in a home World Cup for Brazil, a privilege that most people in this world can only dream of? Not a chance.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I would love to get bumped up to be team captain, or even Asuka. Either-or. We can even be co-captains.