Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

That's the main thing for a player: you feel comfortable, you feel aware of everything around you, and you don't think about anything other than football when you're on the pitch.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

You put your personal stuff away and concentrate on the team and help out.

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.

I can't worry about what's going on up front, I've got to continue to keep my eyes down the field.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

I just try to stay as focused as I always am, relax and make sure I can help the team out whenever I can.

When you go into cricket you have to be streetwise.

I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That's why, occasionally, I also boot the ball into the stands.

When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time. You are always focussing on what is going to be the next move, what if it doesn't work, what if the situation changes and you have to change your plan.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.

It's our responsibility as experienced and successful players to manage our powers in order to be able to give 100 per cent in the right moments.

You can't feel your way into an Ashes series, you have to be switched on from ball one. That's just me in a nutshell.

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.