Cricket Quote by Alastair Cook

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it…

— Alastair Cook

If you don't train in a certain way because you think you won't play, you have to do more in the week to show…

— Gennaro Gattuso

As a forward, when you have not scored for a while the desire to score gets stronger and stronger and ultimately that can work…

— Eniola Aluko

It is so difficult when you are out for a year, not just because you are not playing, but because other players are still…

— Juan Martin del Potro

Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to…

— Tom Daley

You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the…

— Willy Caballero

When you don't play, you really feel the difference of what matches give you. The match-sharpness, the fitness. It's what you need to progress.

— Ruben Loftus-Cheek

It is important to have down time between training and matches.

— Steph Houghton

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

— Patrick van Aanholt

It's not always about scoring runs when it comes to Test cricket. There are times and circumstances when you've got to save the match.

— Ravindra Jadeja

What bothers me is when my players don't train well.

— Harry Kewell

If you are loose and not quite taking clear-cut chances in training, then clearly you are not going to do that come match time.

— Mark Hughes