Andrew Flintoff

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

— Andrew Flintoff

While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as…

— Andrew Flintoff

Old Trafford - as a cricket ground, I love playing there. It's a second home for me; I've been going there since…

— Andrew Flintoff

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I…

— Andrew Flintoff

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

— Andrew Flintoff

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

— Andrew Flintoff

I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on…

— Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

— Andrew Flintoff

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

— Andrew Flintoff

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be…

— Andrew Flintoff

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

— Andrew Flintoff

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

— Andrew Flintoff

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

— Andrew Flintoff

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

— Andrew Flintoff

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

— Andrew Flintoff

I would like to be as successful as Ian Botham was, but if I'm doing anything, I'm doing it as myself.

— Andrew Flintoff

I was great mates with Muttiah Muralitharan, dating back to the days when we both played together at Lancashire.

— Andrew Flintoff

I remember, when Paul Collingwood first came into the dressing room, we did everything together. We practised together, trained together, had dinner…

— Andrew Flintoff

I take the same Timberland holdall wherever I go, stuffed with all my gear. Or a Louis Vuitton weekender my wife bought…

— Andrew Flintoff

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's…

— Andrew Flintoff

I would never bet against a side I'm playing in. I'd never bet against myself, ever.

— Andrew Flintoff

In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of…

— Andrew Flintoff

'Top Gear' is one of those shows that you'd love to do.

— Andrew Flintoff

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because…

— Andrew Flintoff

It was two different worlds: my world - cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled…

— Andrew Flintoff