I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I've learnt - and this pleases me - that my dad's cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast,… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
But having gone through two bouts of breast cancer and all the operations and treatments it's fair to say mum's a special… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
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… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back on the… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
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… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don't, you get found out. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
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. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I've not given up my keeping, I want to make that very, very clear. I'm still working hard on my keeping and it's something… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
