James Anderson Quotes

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

My dream is to play Test cricket.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

As a cricketer, everybody has a dream to play for your country.

I thought at first I was going to be an NFL quarterback. I played until I was a freshman in high school.

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

I think if you ask any young guy if they would want a career like Gary Payton, they would tell you yes.

I have played 20 years of international cricket for Pakistan and not the PCB.

Every cricketer dreams of coming into the Indian side.

When I was aspiring to play for India, I'd look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were very intimidating.

I've always wanted to be a footballer, and I've always believed that's the path I was going to go down.

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

When I grew up, my father used to say that cricket is not a profession, cricket cannot bring you food. But I think he lived to see the day when I was actually paid.

We think it is a really important part of your journey, as an international player, that you come in and you want it to feel like it's the pinnacle of the game. That you want to come back into that environment. You don't want to think, 'Well, I'd much prefer playing for Sussex,' or your county.

Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

I have never tried to hide my ambition to work in county cricket one day.

It is the ultimate test. It's every cricketer's dream to play Test cricket. I'm eagerly waiting for my opportunity to represent my country in whites also.