Quotes from Jonny Bairstow

But having gone through two bouts of breast cancer and all the operations and treatments it's fair to say mum's a special human being - especially as she had to deal with the tragedy and heartache that went with Dad's death.

People don't actually see what's gone on behind the scenes - the hard work, when you're doing your rehab, when you're sleeping on an ice machine - and yet they have an opinion on it.

As a youngster, you take a lot of things to heart, so you have to learn to trust yourself.

I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.

We're a special family and it's just that Dad's life was taken away from us far too early. Everywhere you go around the world he had an effect on people - in the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa or England. I've never heard a bad word said about him.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

It's important to have a smile with spectators but it's not always possible.

When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.

The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast, postcard perfect.

My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two.

When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was as though no one had noticed the work I'd already put in to make myself one.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

If you suddenly go striving for different things from what have stood you in good stead over a period of time then you're searching for something that you are probably not going to find.

But put it this way: if I have a bad day keeping, I know I can put it right with the bat, and vice versa. When it all comes together, happy days.

Everyone who survives cancer knows the victory against it may only be temporary. You know eventually that you might have to fight all over again. Almost 15 years after my mum's first bout of cancer, a second bout occurred. This time she needed an operation.