Jonny Bairstow Quotes

Jonny Bairstow

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 26, 1989

It's important to have a smile with spectators but it's not always possible.

Jonny Bairstow

The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.

Jonny Bairstow

I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him.

Jonny Bairstow

I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my sporting DNA to want to be in the game at all times, to affect what is going on. That's down to genetics and being ginger, I reckon. We're special specimens.

Jonny Bairstow

You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.

Jonny Bairstow

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

Jonny Bairstow

When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.

Jonny Bairstow

But having gone through two bouts of breast cancer and all the operations and treatments it's fair to say mum's a special human being - especially as she had to deal with the tragedy and heartache that went with Dad's death.

Jonny Bairstow

We're a special family and it's just that Dad's life was taken away from us far too early. Everywhere you go around the world he had an effect on people - in the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa or England. I've never heard a bad word said about him.

Jonny Bairstow

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

Jonny Bairstow

A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back on the field. No one sees the hard work and all the time with the ice machines in rehab.

Jonny Bairstow

I don't think there have been many dull celebrations after any of my hundreds for England. It's been an emotional time for me over the last few weeks. Interpret them as you wish.

Jonny Bairstow

I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.

Jonny Bairstow

Look how successful Eddie Jones was, then all of a sudden a training camp is wrong and it's his fault. The same with Stuart Lancaster.

Jonny Bairstow

If you suddenly go striving for different things from what have stood you in good stead over a period of time then you're searching for something that you are probably not going to find.

Jonny Bairstow

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.

Jonny Bairstow

All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.

Jonny Bairstow

I think it's something you learn over a period of time; you learn to be more comfortable within yourself, appreciative of what you've got and what you haven't, you realise the talents you have and what you can do and you take on the chin the things that you have to. It's part and parcel of growing up.

Jonny Bairstow

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

Jonny Bairstow

Who says we can't win the World Cup and the Ashes in the same year? Oh yes we can. It all goes back to my motto in life: Be proud of how far you've come - and have faith in how far you can still go.

Jonny Bairstow