Quotes by Andrew Flintoff - Page 3

Throughout my career, in cricket and beyond, I've been incredibly lucky with my marriage. I met Rachael in 2002, and that was the year my England career kicked on. Everything started to click.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Cricket
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A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Bats
Cracks
Machines
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When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
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I was just 17 when I made my debut for Lancashire against Hampshire at Portsmouth. I got seven and a duck. I didn't get a wicket, either. Funnily enough, it was more nerve-wracking than playing for England.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Debut
England
Hampshire
Duck
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Since leaving cricket, I've tried my hand at professional boxing, a live stage show, and working for TV. I've had some interesting experiences, including working with the former basketball player Dennis Rodman.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Basketball
Basketball Player
Boxing
Cricket
Former
Including
Interesting
Leaving
Stage
Tv
Experiences
Hand
Tried
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When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Thinking
Trying
Want
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I've been offered all the usual, 'Strictly Come Dancing' and the like, but the one thing I know is that for me to be good, I've got to absolutely love doing something. And you can't dance the foxtrot half-hearted.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Half Hearted
Usual
Love Good Me
Offered
Strictly
The One Thing
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I can remember all the bad games and rubbish shots I've played far more than all my successes. Luckily, as I've got older, I've got better at dealing with that. What's the point of regrets? They don't change anything.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Rubbish
Luckily
Regrets
Successes
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I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Oasis
Counter
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In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of the world was interesting. He came across as very mild-mannered, and much of what he said made sense.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Confidence
Attitude
Beaten
Boxing
Interesting
Mike
Tyson
World Champion Me
Across
Came
Fascinates
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Mike Tyson
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I wish I'd walked out of 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes, 'He's her husband.' An hour and a half's worth of nonsense later, the big twist at the end is... he's her husband.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Nonsense
Angelina Jolie
Depp
Johnny
Johnny Depp
Tourist
Twist
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They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Australian
Start Me Keep
Aussie
Claiming
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I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Morning
Bad Mood
Thinking
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One of the reasons why you want to play cricket is to play in front of big crowds, and in India, it is the perfect place to do that. The atmosphere here is like no other place in the world. Having experienced it once, you want to keep coming back.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Atmosphere
Cricket
Crowds
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It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Hotel
Politically Correct
I Am Me Country
I Am Me Nothing
Annoys
Me I Am Nothing
Correct
Incorrect
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Playing for England was always something I dreamt of and, of course, you then think of the captaincy. It was something I never thought I would be offered, especially after the way I started my career. But when it came along, I was very keen to have a go.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Always Way Never
Dreamt
Way Always Never
Offered
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When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school - I was tall for my age - and Preston Grasshoppers wanted me, but I wasn't that interested in rugby. It was always going to be cricket for me.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Cricket
Football
Primary School
Rugby
Tennis
Age Always Football
Younger
Played
Interested
Age Me Cricket
Local
Primary
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I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I've flown business class on Kingfisher, which has proper couches.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Flew
Bbc
Interview
Leg
Morgan
Proper
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I remember, when Paul Collingwood first came into the dressing room, we did everything together. We practised together, trained together, had dinner together; we batted together and did well in games together - we were thick as thieves. When he got established, he just binned me.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Remember When
Thick
Together Me Remember
Established
Dressing
Dressing Room
Paul
Trained
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India - I've always felt at home there. Delhi and Mumbai and the Taj Mahal are all incredible - but it's the people I love. Indians are so interesting and accommodating and friendly. The best hotel I've stayed at there is the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur: its architecture is unbelievable.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Architecture
Delhi
Friendly
Hotel
Interesting
Mumbai
Unbelievable
Love Best Home
Indians
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Ambition is a funny thing. In cricket, as in many professions, it tends to take you on a journey away from where you started. That's fine, maybe inevitable. But no one ever tells you that the biggest days aren't always the best days. And the richest prizes aren't the ones you remember.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Cricket
Funny Thing
Prizes
Professions
Richest
Tends
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I made a series for ITV, just after I retired from Tests in 2009, called 'Flintoff Versus the World.' The idea was that I would attempt a series of extreme sports - rodeo riding, jumping out of aeroplanes, paragliding, cliff diving. I thought, 'Yeah, it looks fun. It's six weeks having a laugh.'
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Aeroplanes
Diving
Extreme Sports
Jumping
Retired
Riding
Rodeo
Versus
Extreme
Attempt
Cliff
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There have always been two people jostling for control of my life, two totally opposite characters. The first one is super-confident, bulletproof, a showman, and an extrovert. He tries to make people laugh, messes about, gets into trouble, shrugs it off. The other character is withdrawn and reflective.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Bulletproof
Life Always Character
Life Character My Life
First One
Messes
Reflective
Tries
Two People
Withdrawn
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Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Accents
Cricket
Estates
Mouths
Posh
Stakes
Cheapest
Deemed
Lads
Opened
Risked
Whites
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I took my wife to a really expensive hotel in Dubai. This was when we were first dating, so I wanted to impress her. I had scallops, and after that, I went to the bathroom to be sick. I realised I had just paid £300 or £400 on scallops just to throw it up. My wife and I then talked about it; I knew I had a problem.
Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer
Dating
Bathroom
Dubai
Expensive
Hotel
Impress
Realised
Talked
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