Watching Reality Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

— Jonathan Agnew

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

— Jonathan Agnew

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away,…

— Jonathan Agnew

On your debut, you just want to get into the game. I remember when I played my first Test, we bowled first and I…

— Jonathan Agnew

I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

— Jonathan Agnew

By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will…

— Jonathan Agnew

We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

— Jonathan Agnew

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you…

— Jonathan Agnew

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness,…

— Jonathan Agnew

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but…

— Jonathan Agnew

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face…

— Jonathan Agnew

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

— Jonathan Agnew

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

— Jonathan Agnew

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

— Jonathan Agnew

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

— Jonathan Agnew