Alastair Cook 18 Beaut Quotes

Alastair Cook 18 Beaut Quotese

I like being outside and I like hard work.

— Alastair Cook

Playing for England is such a huge honour - it should always remain that.

— Alastair Cook

Jonathan Agnew is a good person to learn off because he's a brilliant broadcaster and the calmness and clarity with which he does things is a real skill.

— Alastair Cook

You have to be very pragmatic, because you walk out to bat at the best time to bowl, with a brand new ball, against the best bowlers, who are fresh. And their job is to get you out, so when you fail there's no point beating yourself up.

— Alastair Cook

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

— Alastair Cook

Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.

— Alastair Cook

I think my general view of day-night Test cricket is that there is definitely something there that the ICC can keep looking at because it moves the game forward with timing and allows more people to come and watch.

— Alastair Cook

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

— Alastair Cook

If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.

— Alastair Cook

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.

— Alastair Cook

Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.

— Alastair Cook

The England captaincy job, after 50-odd games, has found out what kind of leader I am in terms of a person. It's made me feel far more confident in terms of talking to a group in any situation. But it has taken me a long time to feel like I've been doing it naturally.

— Alastair Cook

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

— Alastair Cook

You're either singing on TV or in front of a full cathedral and there's a bit of pressure there. I know it sounds funny but if you get used to doing it, then performing in front of people playing cricket is the same sort of thing.

— Alastair Cook

When you give up something as big as playing for England there are going to be moments when you miss it.

— Alastair Cook

Yes, there are absolutely moments when you're running out of ideas, and you do genuinely feel sorry for the bowlers when you keep asking them to run in again on a flat wicket, when partnerships get away from you, especially at the tail, which is one of the big differences in the modern game.

— Alastair Cook

The battle between bat and ball is a one-on-one thing. I love that stuff, but you play it in a team.

— Alastair Cook

You're only England captain for a very short space of time.

— Alastair Cook

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