Athlete

Sometimes we don't build up our own cricketers enough.

I enjoy India whenever I go and Sri Lankans are overwhelmingly friendly.

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

Sometimes when you're around a side you don't realise how good they are until you go away from home and they are a very fine team.

It is crucial to have an injury seen to quickly.

Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.

I went to Spain with my brother when I was about 17. We stayed near Barcelona and it was terrible. There were floods and I ended up missing my flight home.

It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

One-day cricket is about continuity, team ethic, understanding each other's role, where everybody fields and bats, when and at which end they want to bowl.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

You are only given so much talent and it is up to you what you do with it.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

Everyone should be decisive about what's best for them and stick to it.

If a player sits out a tour, it is not a problem, because it is a chance to look at others.

So for me Tendulkar is the greatest but Kohli is not far behind and could well end up as the greatest.

When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.