17 Quotes by Ben Chilwell

I went to trials at Northants academy and got in. It was a crossroads between cricket and football.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

There's a lot of pressure we put on ourselves because we want to do well for ourselves and obviously do well for your country.

I was an all-rounder but more of a batsman, maybe second-choice bowler.

I was enjoying my football, even though it wasn't really going well. That's when I said to my dad, who as a New Zealander was very keen on me playing cricket, that I would choose football.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

Then started playing men's cricket when I was 15. That's when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don't really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young... it was one of those things I had to get on with.