Top 138 Quotes & Sayings by Andrew Flintoff - Page 2

I love music more than I love sport.

I'm a bit old school with my aftershave - I still wear Joop.

Ambition is a funny thing. In cricket, as in many professions, it tends to take you on a journey away from where you started. That's fine, maybe inevitable. But no one ever tells you that the biggest days aren't always the best days. And the richest prizes aren't the ones you remember.

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.

With the cricket, I knew what I was doing - to a degree.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere's within half an hour in the car.

I would try monoskiing, but the problem is my dodgy knee's on my right side, and my bad ankle's on my left, so I can't really use either.

I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

The one thing we need to do to continue to maintain Test cricket as being special is cutting down the amount and make it a real occasion rather than playing one after another.

I grew up watching 'Corrie,' and I still watch it whenever I can. It's got everything - drama, humour, and great characters. I used to watch it even when I was living in Dubai.

I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

I won some winners' medals with Lancashire - a NatWest trophy and a couple of Sunday Leagues.

As a cricketer, I played on bravado and character. My personality was bound up with how I played the game.

Cricket kept me away from trouble.

I don't suck up to anyone or do any of that. I point-blank refuse. I just hate it.

I remember, when Paul Collingwood first came into the dressing room, we did everything together. We practised together, trained together, had dinner together; we batted together and did well in games together - we were thick as thieves. When he got established, he just binned me.

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

I wish I'd walked out of 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes, 'He's her husband.' An hour and a half's worth of nonsense later, the big twist at the end is... he's her husband.

Since leaving cricket, I've tried my hand at professional boxing, a live stage show, and working for TV. I've had some interesting experiences, including working with the former basketball player Dennis Rodman.

I can remember all the bad games and rubbish shots I've played far more than all my successes. Luckily, as I've got older, I've got better at dealing with that. What's the point of regrets? They don't change anything.

I don't play for money. I'm not sure I even can play just for money. Money is great; I can't lie about that.

I rate myself as a driver, but I think everybody does.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

'Top Gear' is one of those shows that you'd love to do.

My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.

I want to be the world's number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire - those are my motivations.

I've never been - and never will be - someone who 'plays the game' with people.

I was great mates with Muttiah Muralitharan, dating back to the days when we both played together at Lancashire.

I would never bet against a side I'm playing in. I'd never bet against myself, ever.

When I retired first time around, injury had beaten me, and I hated that. Now I realise I'm no longer good enough. And I can handle that. It's fine that I'm not good enough.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

I have been called a man of many talents, but I like to keep a few of those talents hidden.

I like the look of all-rounder Ben Stokes. I usually have no interest in comparing new players with myself, but there are some interesting parallels here.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.

There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?