Alastair Cook Quotes

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader.

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

I think football is a team sport.

This is the best team sport ever created.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

I played football when I was a kid, it is such a fun sport to play, I fancied myself as a midfielder until I grew too tall and discovered basketball.

Everything was really competitive. We used to always do field day, relays. Races. I was always just naturally good at those things. So when I started playing football, I used some of those traits.

The thing about football, man - it's a team game.

This is a team sport.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

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

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

Because I love football and I love the footballers.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.