Joe Root Quotes

Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that's the kind of challenge I love to face.

Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

Important in a big tournament is how you start. With a great match at the start, you can distance yourself from the unrest from outside. And it increases the respect among opponents.

Dembele is a player who has been playing regularly, from the bench or the start, and he has quality. When he comes off the bench, he can change a game, and that's a quality that is undervalued in football. Not everybody has that quality.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

That's what most players know about me, that I can change the game without scoring or even having a good offensive night.

I'm looking forward to the new challenge that playing T20 cricket in England will bring.

When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you've done in your amateur career really doesn't matter any more.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

You need explosive plays to win.

Jos has been the most complete white-ball batsman we've had ever. The way he can play a number of different scenarios. He can just demoralise attacks and very quickly swing games massively in your favour.

I like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive.

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.

Nicky Shorey is the provider but Shane Long has made this all on his own