Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by James Anderson - Page 2

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

You can get suckered into believing you have to always be attacking with the bat, ball or fielding positions. But Test cricket is not always like that. There are times when it is a bit slow paced and even a bit boring.

There is something special about the early stages of an Ashes Test. There is this unique buzz.

A coach can help only so much. Out on the field you need a partner.

You cannot treat someone differently just because they have become captain. We still took the mickey out of Alastair Cook when he was in charge. You have to treat them first and foremost as a team-mate.

I would like a better record here in Australia but I would like a better record in every country.

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.

I play a bit of golf, off a 12 handicap.

I dreamt of playing for Lancashire then but never really thought it would happen.

I don't actually have a regular end I bowl from at Old Trafford.

The more I can get into my brain the more I can produce on the field.

There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.

I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.

When games are close together you have to draw a line under the first match whether you win or lose, and then start again for the next one.

I've been doing a lot of strength and stretch work to get stronger.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it's defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.

To get key players out in a Test win is what you remember years later.

It is scary when bowling how hard batsmen hit it now.

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

I realise I would not be the bowler I am today without the experiences, positive and negative, that I have had in Australia down the years.

Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.

Dealing with sledging is an individual thing. For me, I am not going to take abuse from David Warner or anyone else and not have a word back. But it is down to the person.

It is a knowledgeable crowd at Old Trafford and they will also tell you when you are not bowling well.

From an England point of view they have put money into white-ball cricket because our performances in World Cups has not been good enough, I understand the reasons for that. But we have to be careful not to go too one-day, we have to find a balance because there is such a legacy of Test cricket in this country and we can't lose that.

Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.

This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.

I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.

I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.

Maybe, early on, I had too many coaches, with three or four guys all giving different input.

The Gabba is not a frightening place to play.

A lot is made of the pink ball. But it is the same really. A good ball is a good ball, regardless of the colour. You might want to bowl a touch fuller with the pink ball when it is nipping around but generally a pink kookaburra behaves the same as a red kookaburra.

You can feel a bit of extra pressure bowling at your own ground.

I remember playing a Twenty20 game in Australia in 2007 and Matthew Hayden smacked one back at me. My head goes down as I follow through and as I looked up I just saw this white flash pass about an inch from the side of my head. If it had been a touch straighter I would not have had time to react and who knows what could have happened.

In the heat of battle you might not be thinking clearly and that is when players have to take on the responsibility of helping the other guys out.

Some of the best cricketers in the world were very quiet on the field but came across in a way that made it very hard to sledge them. It went in one ear and out the other.

It would obviously be a big deal to reach 500 wickets but I don't see it as a target or goal, it's not something that has driven me on.

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

No, no I don't speed or anything. I drive a VW Touareg so.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.