James Anderson Quotes

I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure... and I don't really have those qualities!

Learning how to slow the game down is the biggest thing.

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

In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

I've always felt that when I've been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I've left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don't play are more important than the ones you do.

I am trying to take my ODI confidence to Test cricket.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

You don't win games by being aggressive. You win by being relaxed.

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

Never rush through the stoke. Nervous or not, take your time, and the result is almost always better.

In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

When we're up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don't sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in - I expect that I and my team will be smart.

I built my name on fighting so hard - I'll always do that - but I'm also trying to become more of a veteran, to be be calm and calculated and not always trying to bowl people over.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.