Alastair Cook Quotes

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Alastair Cook

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 25, 1984

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

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

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I've got that ruthlessness inside me. All good captains have to be able to say things like that - with good man-management skills.

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I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

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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.

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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

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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.

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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?'

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

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When you step out of the team environment you think, 'Wow, I'm England captain and we've just won the Ashes.'

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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.

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

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If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

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The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.

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

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