Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I am not a big supporter of sledging or insults that are hurled at you. But I don't mind if a bowler glares or stares at the batsmen. During my career, I have faced these situations numerous times.

If they [political opponents] go around lying about your record, insulting your job performance, your wife and your patriotism, you ought to double up your fist and knock the crap out of them.

I regard sledging, chirping, whatever you want to call it, as one of the weapons at my disposal.

Everybody talks smack during games.

If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with.

I think it is in our interest to punish the first insult; because the first insult is the parent of many others.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.

how very warlike the French are … if once roused, they will not listen to the calm reasoning of those who wish for peace, or think of the great risk they run of losing by war, but only of the glory and of revenging insult, as they call it.

After one operator referred to the union as ‘a set of outlaws’, I wanted to take him by the seat of the breeches and nape of the neck and chuck him out the window.

If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.

For me, it's fine to be aggressive and play hard. As long as you're not getting personal, it's fine, and you can do whatever you can to upset the opposition.

I always fight better when my opponent's angry.

Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.

You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.

It is a player's league until you lose.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.