Alastair Cook Quotes

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Alastair Cook

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 25, 1984

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

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

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Everyone has technical issues - you have them until you die - but you have to be aware of them in a certain way.

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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.

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I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.

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I love cricket but I like being away from it as well.

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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.

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If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

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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.

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Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

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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.

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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.

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Playing for England is such a huge honour - it should always remain that.

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As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.

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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.

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I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

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

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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.

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I like being outside and I like hard work.

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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.

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