Quote

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

Andrew Flintoff

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Flintoff
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: December 6
Boxer
Cricketer
Television Presenter
Freddie Flintoff
Thing
Fit
Beyond
Media
Control
Written
Getting
Whatever

More quotes by Andrew Flintoff

Image
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
Image
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
Image
There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
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
Image
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
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
Image
I'm not keen on making predictions.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.
Andrew Flintoff
Image
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