Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I've been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I've been, I've worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I've never looked beyond that.

I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

It doesn't matter what position they put me at; I've just got to make sure that I come out and play right.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It's just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I'm going to do my best.

When you've got a leader that wants to go out and practice at the ultimate, highest level, when something that you should do doesn't go right, there's going to be a little fire under that, and that's what you need from your leader.

I think the main thing is to give your best regardless of whether you're the captain or not.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

You're not going to look at Paul and see him slacking, not carrying his weight. All the other stuff, 'Paul doesn't lead' and all that? That's fine. Go grab guys that lead, then. Let me help them lead.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

Whatever role I have had on the management side I pride myself on having done my best in the job. I have never shied away from that responsibility.

I've always been a guy that's just prided myself on making plays.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.