Flintoff Quotes & Sayings

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

No being a good campaigner, if you're not a good neighbour. — John-Paul Flintoff

When I have a day off, I will have a day off. — Andrew Flintoff

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

When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view. — Andrew Flintoff

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. — Andrew Flintoff

Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it. — Andrew Flintoff

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

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. — Andrew Flintoff

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies. — Corey Flintoff

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard. — Andrew Flintoff

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you. — Andrew Flintoff

While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer. — Andrew Flintoff

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can. — Andrew Flintoff

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

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form. — Andrew Flintoff

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

What we need is often exactly what we already have. — John-Paul Flintoff

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

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

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions — Michael Atherton

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? — Andrew Flintoff

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

Putin has succeeded in many ways in making Russia an essential player there. He seems to have stabilized the Assad regime. And he has limited the options for the U.S. and its allies, you know. He has air control over a significant amount of territory. And he can prevent the allies from establishing a no-fly zone there. — Corey Flintoff

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. — Andrew Flintoff

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 — Andrew Flintoff

And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey. — Corey Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions. — Andrew Flintoff

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. — Andrew Flintoff

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am. — Andrew Flintoff

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

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

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be — Andrew Flintoff

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

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy — Andrew Flintoff

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. — Andrew Flintoff

Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts. — Corey Flintoff

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. — Andrew Flintoff

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

Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight against the Islamic State. But we're hearing from French officials that [Francois] Hollande hasn't changed his stance. He's - he's still saying that sanctions shouldn't be lifted until the Minsk agreement has been implemented. — Corey Flintoff

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them. — Andrew Flintoff

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one. — Andrew Flintoff

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

[Francois] Hollande said the United States and Russia should join forces. And his words specifically were to fight this terrorist army in a broad single coalition. — Corey Flintoff

Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition. — Corey Flintoff

There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal. — Corey Flintoff

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV. — Andrew Flintoff

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