Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Stokes
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English athlete Ben Stokes.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
As players ourselves, to inspire other players to do what we do is awesome.
I think 2019 will always have a special place for fans.
What happens on the pitch stays on it. Off it you have to let it go.
You are never the complete article but the feeling you get when people come up to you and say 'thank you for the great summer' and inspiring children is such a great feeling.
It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.
Never give up. It's never over until it's over.
When I get on the pitch I have to make sure I am getting hundreds and taking six-fors.
It's amazing how quickly things can change.
Captaincy did not change me as a player whatsoever, when I had the ball in my hand, I operated in the same manner like I always do.
Pune is one of my favorite grounds.
I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.
It's one of the greatest sporting environments you can be in, the first morning of an Ashes series. It's hard to explain, you can only really explain it when you're out there. It's awesome.
In a World Cup final the adrenalin is going. Emotion sometimes get the better of me but that is adrenalin and wanting us to do well.
I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.
It's always great when games can go to day five.
On the field, MS epitomises calmness and, from a cricket point of view, has the best angle in terms of field placements.
There is nothing better than being there at the end and getting your team over the line.
I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.
We've got to be good enough to put runs on board.
The older you get the harder you've got to train.
I used to love going out and celebrating with the lads. But we can do that in the hotel and I don't miss it. I don't feel that urge any more. Once you make the transition to not doing it then you don't miss it.
It's fine for a bowler to have a plan but I feel as a batter you need to have another plan to counteract what they're doing.
I know I'm in a very fortunate position. I make a good living doing something I used to do for fun as a kid messing around in the garden. I'm in a fortunate position, so you try and give what you can, I guess.
I've had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think 'why do you think you can say that to me? You don't know me.'
I don't want to be remembered as the guy who had a fight in the street.
Nothing good happens after midnight.
I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.
I've definitely done things to change my behaviour. There are certain things you can't do when you get to a certain level in what you do. When it gets to a certain time, you're a story to somebody. It is something I have taken on board.
I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.
You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.
2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before that.
Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it's going to be really, really good.
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
Being an instinctive player is great but there's time in the past where I've let how I'm playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I'd be alright.
For me it is about always trying to find ways to improve and get better.
All I'm interested in is putting in consistent performances. If awards come along with that, great. It means you are doing something right.
I like to be aggressive.
You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.
T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.
The thing about international cricket is that you never really get to know the guys you play against. The T20 leagues allow you to actually know an individual.
It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.
After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.
As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.
Setbacks make you want to be better again.
It's all good being there for people when things are going well and smoothly but what really comes through is how you operate with someone when they need you the most.
The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.
You can't feel your way into an Ashes series, you have to be switched on from ball one. That's just me in a nutshell.
There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.
My dad's a fitness freak himself.
In terms of how I want to influence the game, I try to have a positive effect with the ball or bat in my hand.
I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.
That's the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.
I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.
Being out there, as a 22-year-old, it opens your eyes up to the highest level of the sport. It can only do good things.
I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets.
It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
I'm always thinking about the private battle, even in the field. I'm always trying to be better than the other person I'm against.
I used to be guilty of trying to get a wicket every ball, but I've learned the game is not that easy. That's come with experience.
We are all about the equality through society and sport.
Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.
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