Quotes from Ellyse Perry

I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.

For me looking at the success of some of the women's football World Cups, the crowds they've drawn, the spectacle it has created and the event that it's been I think it's really great cricket is having a go at that as well.

One of the main things I take away is just the way the boys approach the game and carry on. You are in the dressing room and it is very much just about getting in and doing as well as you can, putting everything you can and having fun. There is no underlying context to it other than just playing the game.

I play sport all the time.

I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.

Honestly, direct monetary comparisons aren't helpful. If you're going to look at remuneration, you have to be realistic about what revenue we're bringing in for the organisation and the sport. And as it currently stands, women's cricket is still a cost to the business.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.

And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the time.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.