Quotes by Glenn Mcgrath - Page 2

It's a funny thing, life... as much as you don't want the sun to come up, it comes up the next day. Life continues on and you have to make a choice in how you handle it.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Handle
Funny Thing
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To win Test matches consistently you've got to take 20 wickets - yes, you've got to score runs but if you can't bowl a team out it doesn't matter how many runs you score.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Consistently
Bowl
Matches
Runs
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When I played in the Australia team the captains were all nerds. Allan Border was a nerd, Mark Taylor was a nerd, Steve Waugh was definitely a nerd and Ricky Ponting too.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Border
Nerds
Ricky
Steve
Taylor
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I bowled in tandem with Brett Lee, who produced some fast, fiery spells. When you've got someone bowling up above 90mph, it has a fear factor that not many people really enjoy.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Bowling
Fiery
Spells
Tandem
Factor
Lee
Produced
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You can tell yourself that everything is normal, and try to keep the same routine from every other Test match, but there is always something extra special about an Ashes series.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Ashes
Normal
Routine
Series
Special
Always Yourself Keep
Try
Extra
Match
Tell
Test
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An Australian prime minister once said that his job was the second most important job in the country - behind being captain of the cricket team. It's not a job you take on lightly.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Australian
Cricket
Prime Minister
Captain
Important Job
Lightly
Minister
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Australia play best when they've got a bit of mongrel about them, when they play hard out in the middle, when they don't give an inch, when they play an aggressive brand of cricket.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Aggressive
Cricket
Inch
Mongrel
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The Foundation and Pink Day are about celebrating and hope, I know when the time comes and I move on, if I have people celebrating my life and what I bring to the world I'll be happy.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Life Time Hope
Celebrating
Life Hope Time
Move On
Pink
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Have a little protection if that helps your bowler - Brett Lee always wanted a cover and a midwicket because they helped him bowl his natural length and made him more effective as a result.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Length
Protection
Bowl
Lee
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If you continually watch yourself do something well, it has a positive effect. If you sat down and watched yourself bowling, batting or fielding badly, it will probably have the equal effect.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Batting
Bowling
Badly
Continually
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The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Expectations
Humility
Joy
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Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Delighted
Jimmy
Anderson
Becomes
Bowler
Fast
Englishman
Record
Prolific
Test
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I think the important thing for budding cricketers is to always put in 100 per cent - to continue to be your best, work hard, don't ever think you are at the top of your ability, you can always improve.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Best Work
Best Work Always
Best Work Important
Budding
Cent
Per
Important Thing
Work Hard
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If they don't execute well enough then there's nothing much a coach can do. But if they do execute those plans correctly and they don't work, then you need to be able to adapt and come up with something different.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Plans
Adapt
Correctly
Execute
Well Enough
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Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn't really filter in to our thinking. We didn't realise it at the time - we were just making amends for 2005.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Amends
Ashes
Significance
Completed
Filter
Realise
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You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Past
Racism
Tough Times
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My strength was probably more the mental side of the game rather than the skill side. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point to it.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
No Point
Mental
Otherwise
Skill
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You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Bad Habits
Rhythm
Habits
Motions
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There's always a little bit of anticipation - some people call it nerves - the night before, and although I always slept pretty well before big matches, you want to be on edge a little bit to get the best out of yourself.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Anticipation
Nerves
Best Always Yourself
Edge
Matches
Slept
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You can come up with all the gameplans that you want but the guys in the middle have to execute those plans. If Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad serves up a leg-stump half-volley, you can't turn round and blame Andy Flower.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Blame
Flower
Jimmy
Middle
Plans
Anderson
Broad
Execute
Round
Guys
Serve
Stuart
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I had always had the same pre-match routine that I went through every day - get up, go down for a swim and a stretch, back to the room for a shower, then down for brekkie - the same routine every game, and it got me ready.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Routine
Swim
Game Me Day
Shower
Stretch
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I always wondered if I would know the right time to retire. After that first Ashes Test in Brisbane in 2006 I had no intention of stopping. I was still focused and wanted a thousand international wickets. I was still driven.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Ashes
Driven
Intention
Stopping
Thousand
Time Always Know
No Intention
Wondered
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The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Recall
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By the time I made my international debut Tendulkar was already being counted among the best batsmen in the world. Most bowlers knew that his was the crucial wicket in an Indian batting line-up that boasted of many talented batsmen.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Batting
Crucial
Debut
Indian
International
Time Best World
Among
By The Time
Best Time World
Counted
Talented
Line-Up
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A coach these days is more of a manager than a coach. At this level, you shouldn't really need a coach. You need someone to organise, to come up with gameplans and tactics, rather than someone who is going to do much actual coaching.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Organise
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I used to come out and say I was targeting certain players in the opposition team, particularly players I had had success against in the past: Gary Kirsten, Brian Lara and Michael Atherton, for example. It is a mental part of the game.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Brian
Gary
For Example
Targeting
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One of the great things about cricket, and certainly something that I found helpful, was that as soon as you step over the boundary rope you can switch off everything that is happening off the field and focus solely on what is happening out on the pitch.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Cricket
Great Things
Rope
Boundary
Solely
Switch
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Since retirement, I have been given the opportunity to spend time with my family. I have three children, aged 16, 14 and one. That is what is really important to me. I have also done a little commentating in Australia and am part of the MRF academy in Chennai.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Retirement
Aged
Family Time Opportunity
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A lot of people who have had the support of a McGrath breast care nurse, they come up and say what a positive difference it's made in their lives and that in itself makes me realise what we're doing is having a big positive effect and inspires me to keep going.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Nurse
Difference
Effect
Inspires
Realise
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The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Bounce
Length
Pace
Slam
Temptation
Ball
Carried
Charge
The One Thing
Threaten
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I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Australia
Batting
Big Things
Expecting
Johnson
Peter
Clark
Hughes
Hundreds
Lee
Mitchell
Plays
Stuart
Whose
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Sometimes when things are happening outside the team, when forces are at work to try to break the team apart or cause issues, it can actually have a different effect - it can bring the boys closer together. They become more of a unit and they start to protect each other.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Closer
Unit
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As a bowler it's a strange feeling when you start running through a team. You get that one wicket under your belt and suddenly you start running in feeling loose, feeling relaxed and thinking about what you want to bowl rather than focusing on trying to force that wicket.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Relaxed
Belt
Bowl
Thinking Your Start
Focusing
Loose
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The year 1989 was crucial for me because I had just moved from the country into Sydney to play first-class cricket. That was the time I heard of a teenager called Sachin Tendulkar, who had burst on to the scene and was being annointed as successor to the great Sunil Gavaskar.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Cricket
Crucial
Sydney
Time Great Me
Burst
Successor
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That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room - you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect - the hair has got to be perfect, they've got to have the right gear on, it's all about their appearance. The nerds weren't bothered about how they looked.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Appearance
Bothered
Nerd
Perfect
Dressing
Dressing Room
Either
Gear
Looked
Nerds
Room
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It's incredible what the Sydney Test has become - it's now iconically the pink Sydney Test. It's the sixth year that the McGrath Foundation has been involved and the support from everyone in cricket - right across the board, supporters, teams, you name it - has been absolutely incredible.
Glenn Mcgrath / Cricket Player
Cricket
Sydney
Board
Sixth
Pink
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