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Hot topics: ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Andrew Flintoff
I've been feeling pretty good and I think you guys have been a bit harsh on me over the last couple of weeks to be honest.
I've got more chance of winning next year's Melbourne Cup.
I just kept my eyes on the ball and flew.
I would rather watch two stupid films, a Blackadder episode and read a Viz comic and be in a much better frame of mind to play the next day."
We have started calling him grandfather. Even at this stage, he wants to improve with every game.
Manners are free. He tells me every day: manners are free.
Chris Gayle, it was a pleasure to meet you sir!
It's beyond what I thought I could physically do.
''It was probably the gutsiest thing I've ever seen on a cricket field from a spinner after he's been hit probably 150 metres into the stands. He tossed it up, gave it some air and he got the result."
Maybe it's the 12th man that's helping us win
Bless him, he's a Yorkshire fast bowler, and he's got an electrical gadget. It's never going to be a good combination.
It was really difficult to find someone who would bowl to me. So I preferred bowling alone at the stumps.
You need strong characters in the England side, people who will grab the game by the scruff of the neck. So why the hell is Ian Bell still in the England side?
He's not an old man, so we've got to be very careful that we don't flog him to death as a 28-year-old.
I've always said that almost every press conference is a lie.
What I have seen in India is Bollywood, whereas we are more Under Milk Wood
I know where not to bowl to him [ Chris Gayle]. It should be easy. I'm a smart young man, I've done my homework.
I always felt English and felt I could live here and hopefully in time my accent will change and be more English.
To be sat there talking about it - as much as I'd like to travel the world with Beefy - I don't think so.
The day that I can't bowl quick is the day that I'll hang the boots up.
I'll drag him out there kicking and screaming even if he doesn't want to but no, I'm positive he will play.
They are a very, very unpredictable side in the nicest way possible.
It's probably easier to score runs in my backyard.
I was drinking the water and having to reuse the bottles. I had to pee right back inside them. It was very strange.
It's like a Louis Vuitton handbag or a Gucci wallet - there are knock-offs everywhere.
All I got after 15 years at the club was a cup of coffee in the chief executive's office.
Off the field he is a little kitten: he speaks the right thing, comes and says 'sorry for this and that' but my message to him is he cannot come off the field and apologise. It is too late.
I think the ICC really want former players to turn to umpiring. They're giving them the look before they retire.
When at home I take my wife's BMW X5 for a spin around town because I've a lousy car of my own.
I would not call Venkatesh Prasad a coach - he's more of a baggage handler.
If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.
The batsman is not out when the umpire says he is out. The batsman is out when Mark Nicholas or Tony Greig or Ian Chappell or Ravi Shastri says he is out
My grandkids will never be able to look at me and say I won a Champions Trophy in South Africa.
I am just fidgety, it might come across as nervy but that's life.
I don't know if I want to be likened to Arjuna [Ranatunga]
I've always said to my wife that if I was going to mess her around, it would be for Princess Diana. If I could I would have had a dart for her.
Rana Naved-ul Hasan has a lot more hair than when I last saw him... It takes one to recognise one
I have never seen so many runs scored off the cut.
The lady singing "John save our gracious queen" today shall live on forever in my fuzzy brain. Couldn't stop laughing out loud!
We should all realise that our mandatory overs have begun and there is no point in nursing past grudges and animosities.
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"I don't think we ever had anything about our sexual habits written down in a dossier, and I am pretty sure we won't get an advisory on that ever."
The pragmatic captain, Andrew Strauss, crushes Swann's hopes
"There is no doubt that sex increases your performance, provided it does not disturb players' sleep and has no negative influence."
Dr Ashok Ahuja, of the National Institute of Sports, Patiala, takes the practical view
"Is that in the team's vision statement? Hmmm. That is some vision. I really don't know what to say… you've caught me slightly off guard. Oh, I'm still blushing."
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