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Alastair Cook
English
Athlete
Born:
Dec 25
,
1984
Being
Cricket
England
Me
Time
You
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Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.
Alastair Cook
Me
Walk
Will
Walks
No-One
Nobody
Over
Ever
You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.
Alastair Cook
You
Training
Will
Tough
Top
Way
Per
Determined
Push
Sport
Without
Am
Than
Get
Scream
Being
Cent
Shout
Hard
Professional
Harder
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
Alastair Cook
Will
Nice
Too
Respected
Batting
Backward
Some
Touch
Guy
Take
Never
Step
Never Take
Want
Little
Nice Guy
Soft
I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.
Alastair Cook
Time
You
Man
Think
Macho
Sport
Because
Just
Just Because
Play
In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really different life outside of cricket; it's not just cricket, cricket, cricket for 12 months of the year.
Alastair Cook
Life
Me
Year
Sense
Cricket
Months
Gives
Outside
Just
Different
Break
Happens
Different Life
Really
Means
Farming
The England captaincy job, after 50-odd games, has found out what kind of leader I am in terms of a person. It's made me feel far more confident in terms of talking to a group in any situation. But it has taken me a long time to feel like I've been doing it naturally.
Alastair Cook
Time
Me
Job
Made
Long
Long Time
Leader
Situation
Group
Out
Kind
More
Taken
Feel
Like
Terms
Talking
Am
Doing
Been
Person
Any
Confident
After
Far
Naturally
Games
England
Found
The most important opinions to me are those that belong to the guys in the changing room.
Alastair Cook
Me
Important
Changing
Those
Guys
Most
Opinions
The Most Important
Room
Belong
The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.
Alastair Cook
Best
You
Game
Decision
Beauty
Different Opinions
Tea
Cricket
Way
Easier
Responsible
Best Way
See
Something
Point
Point Of View
Emotionally
Look
Involved
Opinions
Go
Cup
Times
Different
View
Many
When you step out of the team environment you think, 'Wow, I'm England captain and we've just won the Ashes.'
Alastair Cook
You
Think
Out
Wow
Step
Environment
Won
Just
Ashes
Team
England
Captain
The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.
Alastair Cook
First
Incredible
Atmosphere
Days
Matches
Test
Australia
Against
Everyone has technical issues - you have them until you die - but you have to be aware of them in a certain way.
Alastair Cook
You
Everyone
Way
Until
Issues
Die
Them
Certain
Certain Way
Aware
Technical
When you are so close to something, it's like a bar of soap - if someone says hold on to it, the harder you squeeze, the quicker it pops out of your hand.
Alastair Cook
You
Says
Out
Someone
Something
Like
Hand
Quicker
Close
Squeeze
Hold
Soap
Bar
Your
Pops
Harder
I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.
Alastair Cook
Love
You
Heart
Three
Country
Boots
Country Boy
Boy
Got
Cow
Your
Inches
Standing
In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.
Alastair Cook
You
Hate
Arrogance
World
Rest
See
Prima
Around
End
Very
In The End
Little
Means
England
Why
Playing
My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.
Alastair Cook
Time
You
Sheep
Whatever
Farm
Thinking
Spend
Background
Out
Girlfriend
About
Weighing
Stuff
Doing
Lee
Lot
Lambs
Them
Farming
Her
Pulling
Playing for England is such a huge honour - it should always remain that.
Alastair Cook
Honour
Remain
Always
Huge
Should
England
Playing
If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.
Alastair Cook
You
Will
Criticism
Lost
Way
Say
Critics
See
Potential
Take
Come
Like
Sport
Matches
Hear
Which
Might
Your
Professional
Media
Things
Played
Alex Hales has tightened up his game from South Africa and learned about Test cricket. It's great when you see someone who doesn't quite nail it, but goes away and works away at it, come back a person who understands more about Test cricket.
Alastair Cook
Great
You
Game
South Africa
Cricket
Back
See
About
Someone
More
Nail
Come
Learned
Tightened
Understands
Test
His
South
Up
Person
Goes
Quite
Africa
Who
Works
Away
Alex
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