Quotes About Achievement

In professional cricket, everybody wants to win.

I lost my parents without them seeing me play international cricket.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

You can really put yourself out there in front of the world, make a name for yourself in international cricket.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

I'm aware how special an achievement 100 caps is because of the players that have come before me and the amount they've given to English cricket.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

I play cricket for the competitive side of it.

England is leading the way in women's cricket.

To be honest I wasn't very good at football. I loved cricket and when I started making some big scores for my boys' team, I dreamed of becoming the next Border.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

I cried all the way to the bank.

A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

When we launched the SEC Network, I think I cried.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.

I love it when people criticise me. There is no better feeling than when you make them quiet.