Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.

There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.