Fantabulous 18 Selected Quotes By - Alastair Cook

Fantabulous 18 Selected Quotes By - Alastair Cooke

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

— Alastair Cook

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

— Alastair Cook

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

— Alastair Cook

When someone says, 'How long do you see yourself captaining for?' you don't really know.

— Alastair Cook

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

— Alastair Cook

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

— Alastair Cook

Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.

— Alastair Cook

You're there to score runs. If you don't do that over a period of time, people will look elsewhere. That hasn't changed and that'll never change, whether it's myself or Jimmy Anderson, you've got to play to a certain level to be picked for England or even Essex.

— Alastair Cook

You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.

— Alastair Cook

The India series wasn't the only reason I retired. It was the culmination of 18 months where things had probably changed in my life.

— Alastair Cook

It's very hard to reflect properly when you're still playing but the hundreds one - when I got my 23rd in Kolkata - felt the most special because it broke a benchmark that had stood for a very long time. It felt good to do something no Englishman has done before.

— Alastair Cook

Without sounding arrogant, I achieved a lot more than I thought I would do.

— Alastair Cook

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

— Alastair Cook

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

— Alastair Cook

I think I come back to Essex and fit in pretty well but until you get there you don't know.

— Alastair Cook

I have achieved more than I could have ever imagined and feel very privileged to have played for such a long time alongside some of the greats of the English game.

— Alastair Cook

In a normal series you can have a couple of bad games and still win it.

— Alastair Cook

I have loved cricket my whole life, from playing in the garden as a child, and will never underestimate how special it is to pull on an England shirt.

— Alastair Cook

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