Steve Smith Quotes

Steve Smith

Profession : Cricketer

Birth : June 2, 1989

I don't like watching cricket, believe it or not.

Steve Smith

I don't like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.

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During a Test match I am not a very good sleeper, mainly because I am visualising. Everything is positive. Nothing negative.

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An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers - and English cricketers for that matter - and there's always that added pressure.

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For me, it's about making sure the mental side of my game is in a good place; if it is, then it's just about backing your ability when you are out in the middle and doing what you can for the team.

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My job is to score runs and hopefully I can continue to do that.

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I am comfortable with five-days. I like the challenge of a five-day Test.

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There has been a lot of talk of the four-day Tests but I like five-days. I don't make the decisions of how it all works out but five-day Tests is what it is all about.

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Selectors are there to do a job. They pick what they see as best for the team.

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I love to speak to Brad Haddin, Simon Katich. All different people. Quality people with opinions I can trust.

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I generally have been a good player of spin.

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I actually think I play better with pressure, that extra pressure when the team needs something more and things like that.

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I think that's the way we play our best cricket, when we're aggressive, we're in the fight together, we're hunting as a pack as one and we're working for each other and backing our mates up on the field. That's part of being an Australian, in my opinion.

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I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.

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Particularly when I'm batting, I don't really hear anything that's going on. I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when I'm fielding but then again, it's just words. It doesn't affect me. If people want to say things then go for it.

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With the spin bowling, it's about landing the ball in the right area enough, trying to build enough pressure, not let the batters get away.

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I guess the thing with South Africa and Australia, the conditions are probably the two most similar around the world. The pace in the wickets are generally pretty similar, and the pace and bounce.

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That's pretty important to me - to make sure I'm leading from the front.

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We like to play good, hard, tough, aggressive cricket when we're out in the field.

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In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you've got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.

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