Quotes by Alastair Cook - Page 2

When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Accused
Andrew
Captain
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That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Great Things
Swings
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In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Arrogance
In The End
Prima
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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 / Cricketer
Cricket
Garden
Never Underestimate
Underestimate
Shirt
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No disrespect to county cricket but when you're playing for England it is the ultimate, it is what has always driven me to push myself above and beyond.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
County
Cricket
Disrespect
Driven
Myself Always Me
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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 / Cricketer
Calmness
Clarity
Good Person
Broadcaster
Jonathan
Skill
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When you are so close to something, it's like a bar of soap - if someone says hold on to it, the harder you squeeze, the quicker it pops out of your hand.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Pops
Soap
Bar
Quicker
Squeeze
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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 / Cricketer
Ashes
Batting
Point Of View
Selfish
Bat
Point
Purely
View
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Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Coaches
Me People Possible
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I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Criticism
Justified
Defend
Tactic
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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 / Cricketer
Long Time
Privileged
Achieved
Time Game Long
Alongside
Played
English
Time Long Game
Greats
Imagined
Such A Long Time
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The stats suggest that I'm not a dasher. It doesn't mean I can't play the shots, but when you find a method in four-day and Test cricket that works for you, you stick with it.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Method
Suggest
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It does take a lot of effort to perform, playing for England. It's a huge amount of sacrifice to do and one day I might just wake up and say 'you know what, I'm done with it.'
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Sacrifice
Huge Amount
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I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Proud
Seen
Genuinely
Best World Believe
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The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Forgiving
Orchestra
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I made my debut in 2006 and absolutely, there was the pressure of the cricket, but there was no social media. There was no direct feedback to your phone. If you wanted to, you could avoid it.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Debut
Feedback
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When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
World Cup
Captain
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It is frustrating when you go all that way, you train, and you just don't turn up. It does happen. If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score the runs.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Frustrating
Periods
Matches
Runs
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Relief isn't quite the right word but there's satisfaction at a job well done and I'm proud to say that I'm an Ashes-winning captain. Without taking it too personally, it has a nice little ring to it.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Relief
Satisfaction
Well Done
Captain
Right Word
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My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Best Way
Determination
Half
Stubbornness
Best Me Way
Helped
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In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really different life outside of cricket; it's not just cricket, cricket, cricket for 12 months of the year.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Different Life
Farming
Life Happens Me
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You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Determined
Scream
Cent
Shout
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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 / Cricketer
Cricket
Timing
More People
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The family farm plays such a big part in my life and I genuinely love going back there. In some ways I'd like to spend every day there, but there would be a big hole in my life if I didn't stay involved in cricket.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Involved
Life Love Family
Big Part
Genuinely
Family Farm
Farm
Hole
Plays
Such A Big Part
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Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Batting
Best Way
Noise
Stubborn
Change Best Me
Captain
Streak
Served
Shut
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When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Hundred
Satisfaction
Satisfying
Triumph
Skill
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The biggest thing was probably a better understanding of the mental side of cricket and also the technical challenges I have in my game. Those two things happened in a very short space of time which changed me as a player.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Time Space Better
Better Understanding
Biggest Thing
Short Space
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If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Criticism
Matches
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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 / Cricketer
Cricket
Funny People Doing
Cathedral
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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 / Cricketer
Brand New
No Point
Beating
Best Time
Bowl
Best Time Walk
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My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Lambs
Weighing
Farm
Lee
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Alex Hales has tightened up his game from South Africa and learned about Test cricket. It's great when you see someone who doesn't quite nail it, but goes away and works away at it, come back a person who understands more about Test cricket.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
South Africa
Nail
Tightened
Understands
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I love the individual sport stuff but the experiences I've had with some great people over 12 or 15 years are what makes is special. That individual thing: me versus the bowler is great but you get that team feeling as well and that's why it suits me so well.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Great People
Versus
Love Great Me
Bowler
Individual Sport
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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 / Cricketer
Elsewhere
Jimmy
Time Change Myself
Anderson
Certain Level
Change Time Myself
Picked
Runs
Time People
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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 / Cricketer
Broke
Time Good Long
Time Good Done
Benchmark
Englishman
Hundreds
Properly
Reflect
Stood
Very Long Time
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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 / Cricketer
Experience
Countryside
Middle
Special
Absolutely
Love Experience I Am
Much
Away
Bubble
Getting
Farm
Goes
Happiest
Place
Special Place
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You need to come to terms with the fact that you are not an international cricketer anymore and that's certainly difficult to come to terms with. But then I love going to my farm and spending time with my family. Drop and pick up my kids from school and play cricket as well.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Cricket
Spending Time
Love Time Family
Drop
Farm
Love Family Time
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As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Failing
Time Always Bad
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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 / Cricketer
Differences
Sorry
Genuinely
Tail
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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 / Cricketer
Beauty
Best Way
Cricket
Decision
Different Opinions
Easier
Involved
Point Of View
Responsible
Tea
Game
Cup
Emotionally
Times
Opinions
Point
View
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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 / Cricketer
Employing
Any Other Way
Business End Of The Day Day
Runs
Scoring
The One Thing
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