Glenn McGrath Quotes

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.

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

They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

Obviously, you want to get big runs. But then, as a captain, you want to play on result-oriented wickets.

When I grew up, I tried to score off every ball, be it a 10-over-match, a 20-over, or even a Test match. If I stay in the wicket for, say, about 30 minutes, I want to make the most of it and score maximum runs possible. You never know when you get out; try to score as much possible before that.

I am a big fan of the five-bowler strategy.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.

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

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

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 want to make contributions that help us win Test matches rather than put us in positions where we have to play extremely well to win.

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

You want our team to have the best chance to win.

If you've got one bowler - particularly a fast bowler - who is really aggressive, all over the opposition, he brings the rest of the team along with him.

With the new ball, against any bowler, it's important to see off the first few overs.

We need to remember that simply being Inter is not enough to win football matches.

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

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

After a test match it's very easy to make selections, once you've seen exactly how the surface is going to play.

Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.