Quotes from Nasser Hussain

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

Pakistan is a very emotional, cricket-loving nation and what Pakistan need is a street-fighter-type in charge of the team.

Many Pakistani fans will say they have followed their team for too long and had their hearts broken many times, but I love them, and I love their cricket.

I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.

I play hard and I play to win, and my team play for me because of the backing I show them.

If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.

With all my bats I like them to be bottom-heavy, so they help me to hold the line through the shot.

Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.

It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

I haven't stuck my head out to be captain of England.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

Being in charge of a team is just like having kids.

You have to try to move your feet and get to the pitch to hit the spinners away.

Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.

In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table.

I can't pick up a pair of new gloves like Alec Stewart or Mike Atherton. I have to get them sweaty and loose, and put extra stuff on my gloves to protect the fingers.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

I think Andrew Strauss never gets enough credit for what he's done for English cricket.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

It sounds sycophantic, but I don't think I have met anyone in cricket who gives so much to a team as Marcus Trescothick does to England.

People shouldn't underplay what the breaking up of a team does in every department.