Glenn McGrath Quotes

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

A lot of the emphasis on international bowlers is on their pace and Australia coach Darren Lehmann is a big fan of bowlers who can bowl 90mph-plus.

I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it's also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.

I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

It is important as a bowler that you always need to have a presence. If you lose that you lose quite a bit, a big part of your armoury. It comes naturally with me, and at times it is a huge advantage. I don't want to lose it. I want to keep getting wickets.

As a fast bowler if you're not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you're going to struggle in Australia.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

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

I have always been an attacking bowler, but I am trying my best to learn every day.

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

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

I don't run after speed. Obviously, it will be better to have some more pace, but I am very well aware that I can't bowl with the speed of 150 kmph. I am working hard on my technique and variations.

In terms of pace, every captain wants pace in their attack.