69 Quotes by Jonny Bairstow

Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.

The less you worry about things the more you just do it naturally.

I think 'chuffed to bits' is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.

I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.

In my head I'm talking all the time.