James Anderson Quotes

With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I know how much of a uniting game cricket is and as a leader of the Birmingham Phoenix that is something I definitely want to promote.

The best part of being with the Warriors has been the team camaraderie, the team meals, the team pranks, the bond we share.

That's what is cool about football: you build life-long relationships.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don't want to have guys that don't feel comfortable in the locker room.

The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.

During the season, your team should be led with exuberance and excitement. You should live the journey. You should live it right. You should live it together. You should live it shared. You should try to make one another better. You should get on one another if somebody's not doing their part. You should hug one another when they are. You should be disappointed in a loss and exhilarated in a win. It's all about the journey.

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

I've been lucky enough to play on NBA teams I really enjoy, teams where I've liked everybody and had fun, and had that college kind of experience with an NBA team. When you have that, and I don't know that everyone does, but when I've had it, that's what it's all about.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.