Alastair Cook Quotes

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

I've thoroughly enjoyed my life since I stopped playing. Of course you miss playing now and then, but I've travelled, I still work with Manchester United, I spent more time with my family and watched my kids grow up.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.

Spending time in the kitchen together with my children, it's huge.

How well we understand the kids' world is very important, and I myself am not claiming to be the perfect dad, and from feedbacks from Jo, I understand that more time should be spent with our children.

I love my children. I spend a lot of time with them.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

I just like to spend time with my family and friends, especially my children.

My biggest wish is that I would have more time with my husband and my boys.

When you're away from home for a fight camp it's the simple things that you miss the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality family time and small things like that.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

I left wrestling to spend more time at home with family.

My life is to play golf, sit home with the wife and kids, and do things with the family more than I used to.

When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.

I literally wear a mask. When I take it off, I'm a father. I'm a husband. I like to come home, and I like to spend time with family, and I like to travel, and I like to have a good time. And I like to be a kid every now and giggle and play with my kids.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

As parents, it's easy to not give the child enough credit and not spend enough time together.

I am a simple guy, most of the time I am with my family, my wife and my son. I like to be with them and they make me happy.

If I'm home, just hanging around with the kids.