121 Quotes by Alastair Cook

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

You need to come to terms with the fact that you are not an international cricketer anymore and that's certainly difficult to come to terms with. But then I love going to my farm and spending time with my family. Drop and pick up my kids from school and play cricket as well.

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have.

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.