Quotes from Stuart Broad

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?

I play cricket for the competitive side of it.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

I like it when the captain comes to me and says, 'We're really desperate for a wicket, can you get us one?' or when we really need something to happen in a Test match.

I've always targeted that number eight spot.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

I'm a private person.

As a player you get asked to do different roles within the side.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

It is a proud moment to lead England out any time you do and on a world stage it gives it an extra oomph as well but it will be down there with the biggest lows if we don't win.

When you are performing at the top level you don't get many chances to go back to basics as you are in elite performance mode. It's hard to break your technique or action down when it always needs to be at a match intensity.

I try to look for tempo in my run-up to make sure my knees are lifting up instead of going long. That brings an energy to my run-up, try and make myself feel as tall as I can.

I don't think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.

The best player I've played with would be Graeme Swann, just because he's proved that regular finger-spinners can take wickets in international cricket for England.

As a sportsman you are always testing your limits.

I have a dream of playing 100 Tests.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

It is important as a bowler that you always need to have a presence. If you lose that you lose quite a bit, a big part of your armoury. It comes naturally with me, and at times it is a huge advantage. I don't want to lose it. I want to keep getting wickets.

My role changes quite a lot, but ultimately I've always admired Glenn McGrath.

That's one of the good things about cricket, the friendships around the game.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure.

Our training schedule can change quite a bit throughout the year - if you're going into quite a heavy Test match workload a lot of it's based on recovery and a lot of aerobic work is done in that period.

I found Ricky Ponting the hardest to bowl to and it was a great pleasure to play against him as he was genuinely one of the best that's ever played and a really tough competitor as well. He hated you when you were on the field but he always shook your hand and was the epitome of 'play hard but play fair.'