Ellyse Perry Quotes

Ellyse Perry

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 3, 1990

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.

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I think most girls would say they'd love to play more Tests if it was possible.

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My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.

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My dad is my hero. We have a strong relationship around sport. It has been such a big part of his life and now mine, and for him to be one of my coaches is a great thing.

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More girls are taking up sport and realising it's a legitimate option for them to forge a career.

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I think a lot of sporting organisations are really sitting up and taking notice, putting in some great programs and investing a lot into women's sports.

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A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

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Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.

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We've still got some of our best friends living in Canberra and I still do some training with one of the strength and conditioning coaches at the Brumbies.

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When I started out there weren't even contracts for players and now all the girls on the team are full-time professional athletes, I guess seeing that evolve over a period of time has been incredible.

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One of my favourite parts of training is doing it with Dad in the local nets. When I do that, I feel like a kid again. We never argue. He has to put up with some bad moods from me when I'm not hitting it as I'd like. He's very placid. He's not a pushy parent at all.

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It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

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And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the time.

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I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

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Having success in World Cups is some of the biggest career highlights that I've had, but more generally speaking, the biggest highlight is just the development of the sport and being involved in this period of women's cricket, but also in women's sport in general in Australia, where it's been a bit of a watershed moment.

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I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

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I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself and about life.

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I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible.

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For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport.

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I play sport all the time.

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