Captain Quote by Alastair Cook

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

— Kevin Pietersen

Captaincy is a confidence game. When the team is winning and your decisions go well that breeds confidence.

— Andrew Strauss

When you're captain you get involved in a lot of things. You're trying to get the best out of players and subconsciously, without knowing,…

— Sourav Ganguly

Captaincy did not change me as a player whatsoever, when I had the ball in my hand, I operated in the same manner like…

— Ben Stokes

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

— Alastair Cook

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs…

— Alastair Cook

You're only England captain for a very short space of time.

— Alastair Cook

Getting the opportunity to captain England is a huge honour - even if it's only the once you can still say 'yeah, I've captained…

— Ben Stokes

I haven't stuck my head out to be captain of England.

— Nasser Hussain

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

— Andrew Flintoff

Playing for England was always something I dreamt of and, of course, you then think of the captaincy. It was something I never thought…

— Andrew Flintoff

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

— Shahid Afridi