Glenn McGrath Quotes

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

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.

An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

When you've got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.

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

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

Every innings is important.

If the batsmen can give the bowlers a day and half of rest then that is going to work in the team's favour.

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.

You have got to try to make the batsman feel a bit uncomfortable to get him out.

I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.

The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.

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.

We all know just bowling won't do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.

When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

I like it when the captain comes to me and says, 'We're really desperate for a wicket, can you get us one?' or when we really need something to happen in a Test match.