James Anderson Quotes

James Anderson

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 30, 1982

Alastair Cook is one of my best pals.

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Andrew Strauss captained me through my purple patch.

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Kohli is always fired up, very animated on the field and plays with passion.

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It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

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If you can dismiss the best in the world, it means you're doing something right and have the quality needed to perform at the highest level.

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Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

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At that speed, batsmen are almost trying to premeditate where the ball will be - they feel like they don't have time to react or move. That's the difference between bowling in the mid-80s and the mid-90s.

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There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

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A lot of teams see Lord's as a special place and up their games to try to get their names on the honours' board.

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Having two bowlers who can exceed 90 mph is a mouth-watering prospect - and something batsmen will not relish one bit.

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Part of the reason I fell in love with cricket was watching fast bowlers. They provide a sense of theatre with dramatic, ferocious spells and that applies as much in one-day cricket as in Tests.

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I'm proud to have represented England in four World Cups but it was hugely frustrating that we never reached a semi-final or played to our ability.

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I'm a very competitive person and maybe I'd taken things a bit too far at times.

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Ben Stokes, for example, is someone who plays better when he is a bit aggressive - and that's something you don't want to take away from him.

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It is easy for people to say 'Go and express yourselves' but you need the players, talent, confidence and environment to do it.

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The Oval 2018 was one of the most extraordinary Tests I've been involved with.

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I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.

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You so often see bowlers pick out a lovely new ball from the bag at nets and it looks great when it swings in the air and nips off the seam with batsmen playing and missing. But you have to simulate match situations. What about when the ball is 60 overs old, the sun is blazing down, the pitch is flat and there's not a hint of movement?

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I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

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I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.

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