Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Nasser Hussain
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
When you've done as much travelling as I have, it becomes hard work - I probably spend 90 per cent of the year travelling.
I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.
I am still disappointed when I have let myself down or my team. That will not change at any stage in the future.
I've been married a long time.
Being in charge of a team is just like having kids.
Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can't frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it's so effective.
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.
Off the field I always thought Mark Taylor was exemplary in the way he handled himself.
It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.
It is crucial to have an injury seen to quickly.
Tiger Woods is someone I'd like to ask questions of. I'm fascinated to know about his life - everything he goes through, is he happy being Tiger Woods?
I haven't stuck my head out to be captain of England.
Pakistan is a very emotional, cricket-loving nation and what Pakistan need is a street-fighter-type in charge of the team.
As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.
Everyone should be decisive about what's best for them and stick to it.
More than playing, my greatest moments and love of the game come from captaining England.
So for me Tendulkar is the greatest but Kohli is not far behind and could well end up as the greatest.
I think I've broken every finger, and my wrist on a tennis court in Guyana, and at 33 you get other injuries like hernias and tennis elbow.
In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.
My relationship with my dad is everything.
I enjoy India whenever I go and Sri Lankans are overwhelmingly friendly.
Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.
I think Andrew Strauss never gets enough credit for what he's done for English cricket.
Pujara is not fashionable, he's very much old-fashioned - he's not great between the wickets and he's not a modern, extravagant, in-your-face character like Kohli, Dhawan or Pandya.
If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.
Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.
There are lots of places I would love to go to in Europe and North America.
When you are no longer England captain, you suddenly realise it's over, you are no longer England captain, and you appreciate what you had.
Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.
There is too much cricket being played. You need time away to get your mind in order to reach the optimum level.
I admired Stephen Fleming.
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.
You have to think about ways of improving the helmet all the time, balancing protection with being able to move and see the ball.
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.
Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.
I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.
At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.
I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He's the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.
There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.
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.
People shouldn't underplay what the breaking up of a team does in every department.
Michael Atherton's powers of concentration never cease to amaze me. When you need reminding what Test-match batting is all about, who else would you have at the other end?
When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.
Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.
I think Kohli is magnificent in a run chase, I have to say. He has won so many matches for India.
I played with Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart; if anything off the field affected Graham his cricket life was not important and you had to give him a break. But if Alec had issues at home you would never know about it; he would turn up and think: 'This is my job, I can do it.'
If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.
I like back-to-back Tests at the end of a series, without any county game in between. We know county cricket has no bearing on Test cricket.
You are only given so much talent and it is up to you what you do with it.
With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix it.
Well, I've always prefered playing spin off the back foot because, to my mind, it takes short leg and silly point out of the equation.
Many Pakistani fans will say they have followed their team for too long and had their hearts broken many times, but I love them, and I love their cricket.
I have applied to go to either Durham or Loughborough University to study Applied Physics and would like to get some qualification behind me. But when I do think about becoming professional Essex would be my first choice as I have been very happy playing and practising with them.
I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.
Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.
Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.
From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.
Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.
The closer I got to Essex 2nds, the more technical I got with my batting.
Spinners are a funny breed. If they're playing on seaming pitches they moan and if they're about to play on real 'Bunsen burners' they reckon the pressure is on them.
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