Eoin Morgan Quotes

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

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

In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.

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

There is always pressure in football.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

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

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

My outlook is that when you're under pressure then that is when you play your best cricket. You've got no choice but to perform to keep your place and I find that brings out the best in me.

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