Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Agnew - Page 2

I am not very good at putting on a front.

If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.

I very rarely watch any television at all.

My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.

I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

The absolute key difference between television and radio is the ability of radio to communicate. With television you can watch the screen and your mind can be anywhere. On radio it requires a certain amount of discipline from the listener to follow what's being said.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.

I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.

I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't a full-time job; in the winter you had nothing to do.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

I really enjoy politics.

Fairness matters.

My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.

It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'

I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers.

In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.

Rather than influence the media, I hope that my progress from player to correspondent shows that there is a role for former cricketers in the media, despite the intolerant views of some of my colleagues in the press box.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

Adelaide is terribly underrated. There are lovely wide streets, beautiful parks, one of the most scenic cricket grounds, wonderful beaches, and vineyards nearby. The food and the people are lovely, and it's not too big and sprawling.

I was a professional cricketer from 16.

Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.

Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.

When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have to make sure that you don't give the bowlers any more advantages.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

I've never got to the bottom of streaking

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.