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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
I like to eat Wheaties Fuel for breakfast with fresh fruit and egg whites. For lunch, I like to eat my wife's 'homerun chicken,' which is chicken, rice and vegetables, and for dinner I eat grilled steak or a couple of chicken breasts with rice and vegetables. During the day, I drink OhYeah! protein shakes as a snack.
Albert Pujols
Day
Fruit
Vegetables
Wife
Dinner
Breakfast
Lunch
Eat
Shakes
Steak
Drink
Like
Couple
Protein
Fresh
Snack
Chicken
Egg
Which
Rice
Breasts
Fuel
Whites
I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy.
Albert Pujols
Thankful
God
Time
Family
Crazy
Technology
People
Country
Before
Same Thing
Other
Our
See
Seeing
Given
Through
Computer
Weeks
Had
Without
Least
Go
Same
Where
Available
Us
Really
Hard
Skype
Each
Thing
Defend
Two
Imagine
Two Weeks
I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.
Albert Pujols
Training
Important
Think
Athlete
Most
Parts
Important Parts
His
Leg
Any
Workouts
Two
Core
I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.
Albert Pujols
People
Responsibility
Down
Believe
Syndrome
Well
Dominican Republic
Native
Children
Republic
My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me would instead look up to God. I am nothing without Him. Everything I do in life and in baseball is to glorify Him.
Albert Pujols
Life
Love
God
Me
Wife
Own
Nothing
Our
Everything
Would
Instead
Look
Looks
Him
Glorify
Without
Am
Up
Five
Children
Anyone
Ask
Who
Baseball
If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.
Albert Pujols
God
Me
Bible
Tomorrow
Promised
Something
Sure
Because
Go
Going
Heaven
Happens
Us
In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.
Albert Pujols
Training
Strong
Try
Will
Important
Medicine
Else
Possible
Ball
Ball Player
Lot
Whenever
Anything
Anything Else
Regards
Turning
Baseball
Baseball Player
Keeping
Player
Twisting
Incorporate
Core
Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.
Albert Pujols
You
People
Paparazzi
Angeles
More
More People
Like
Los
Los Angeles
Where
Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.
Albert Pujols
You
Game
Sometimes
Job
Important
Before
Preparation
Must
Always
His
Very
Hitter
Same
Going
Pitcher
Pitchers
Videotape
Even
Prepare
Watch
My life's goal is to bring glory to Jesus.
Albert Pujols
Life
Glory
Goal
Jesus
Bring
My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.
Albert Pujols
Me
Sometimes
Dinner
Breakfast
Lunch
Eat
Could
Supported
Always
Were
Anything
Poor
Dad
St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.
Albert Pujols
Success
Best
Day
Home
Me
You
Every Day
People
World
Win
Organization
Three
Live
Every
Tried
Something
Take
Had
Still
Won
Louis
St. Louis
Front
Place
Help
Special
Series
Special Place
Enjoyed
World Series
Playing
Two
Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.
Albert Pujols
Me
Game
Before
Mark
Took
Way
Right Way
Those
Wing
Guys
He
Edgar
Fernando
Died
Taught
Mike
Play
Right
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