Jos Buttler Quotes

Jos Buttler

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 8, 1990

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.

Jos Buttler

India is such an attack on your senses and is unrivalled for the passion surrounding cricket.

Jos Buttler

Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.

Jos Buttler

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Jos Buttler

We're very lucky in England: everything's very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.

Jos Buttler

I think I have an innate inner confidence, one that I don't feel I need to prove all the time. There will be times throughout your career when it does dip a little bit. Whether it's from within, or something you guys have written.

Jos Buttler

Cricket takes so long. There's a lot of airtime to fill. Guys have to talk about someone's technique for half an hour.

Jos Buttler

I'm quite content with who I am and what I do. You might get someone in your local Tesco who might know who you are. But not really. To think you couldn't do those simple things, I'd say I'd probably crave them quite a lot.

Jos Buttler

I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though I haven't contributed as I would have liked, I've still enjoyed the cricket just as much.

Jos Buttler

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

Jos Buttler

Early on, when I was playing the one-day stuff a few years ago and had a really poor start to my career, it was actually when I stopped worrying about getting dropped and about all the things that might go wrong that I started playing better.

Jos Buttler

Chris Gayle is an incredible player. A big guy, with phenomenal power and a very big bat. It's quite the combo.

Jos Buttler

The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.

Jos Buttler

In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.

Jos Buttler

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the end.

Jos Buttler

It's an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.

Jos Buttler

Innovation grabs the attention. You go back through the history of cricket and there are certain moments in time that grab you. Kevin Pietersen's flamingo shot was one of those.

Jos Buttler

Cricket has a stigma of old men in white clothes playing cricket but readdressing that image to people who aren't necessarily cricket lovers may go some way to making it cooler.

Jos Buttler

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Jos Buttler

When you look at the best players in the world, they can play all the formats. I don't think it's an easy thing to do and that's why they're the best players in the world.

Jos Buttler