Top 35 Andrew Flintoff Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m ugly, I’m overweight, but I’m happy.”

— Andrew Flintoff

2. “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

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

— Andrew Flintoff

4. “There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.”

— Andrew Flintoff

5. “When I have a day off, I will have a day off.”

— Andrew Flintoff

6. “Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You’ve got to trust your instincts.”

— Andrew Flintoff

7. “My family is not a distraction. They’re the most important thing in my life.”

— Andrew Flintoff

8. “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

9. “I’ve read a lot of Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting, Glue – he’s written some beauties.”

— Andrew Flintoff

10. “When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.”

— Andrew Flintoff

11. “I’m not really superstitious – I don’t have any lucky charms or a mascot.”

— Andrew Flintoff

12. “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

13. “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

14. “It’s far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne.”

— Andrew Flintoff

15. “I’m completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope.”

— Andrew Flintoff

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

— Andrew Flintoff

17. “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

18. “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

19. “I’ll take my iPod – though I’m not very good with gadgets to be honest – and that has everything I like.”

— Andrew Flintoff

20. “In the past five weeks I’ve trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be.”

— Andrew Flintoff

21. “If I’m playing well I’ll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.”

— Andrew Flintoff

22. “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

23. “I’m not keen on making predictions.”

— Andrew Flintoff

24. “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

25. “I have a varied taste, I’ll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.”

— Andrew Flintoff

26. “Cricket is great, but I’m not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.”

— Andrew Flintoff

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

— Andrew Flintoff

28. “I’m comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.”

— Andrew Flintoff

29. “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

30. “If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.”

— Andrew Flintoff

31. “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

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

— Andrew Flintoff

33. “It’s a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.”

— Andrew Flintoff

34. “If you’re batting and you go off on one it can’t really help you.”

— Andrew Flintoff

35. “There are of course mornings when you wouldn’t mind a lie in.”

— Andrew Flintoff

36. “I’m not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.”

— Andrew Flintoff

37. “It’s usually the funny comments which are the better ones – and they are good for the game.”

— Andrew Flintoff