Jonny Bairstow

As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream…

— Jonny Bairstow

I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to…

— Jonny Bairstow

A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back…

— Jonny Bairstow

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get…

— Jonny Bairstow

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

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

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have…

— Jonny Bairstow

My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.

— Jonny Bairstow

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love -…

— Jonny Bairstow

I've not given up my keeping, I want to make that very, very clear. I'm still working hard on my keeping and…

— Jonny Bairstow

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

The less you worry about things the more you just do it naturally.

— Jonny Bairstow

You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes…

— Jonny Bairstow

Everyone who survives cancer knows the victory against it may only be temporary. You know eventually that you might have to fight…

— Jonny Bairstow

I do enjoy fielding in the deep and I enjoy engaging with the crowd.

— Jonny Bairstow

Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord's and you know you're going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start…

— Jonny Bairstow

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.

— Jonny Bairstow

I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I…

— Jonny Bairstow

But put it this way: if I have a bad day keeping, I know I can put it right with the bat,…

— Jonny Bairstow

In my head I'm talking all the time.

— Jonny Bairstow

Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed…

— Jonny Bairstow

If you suddenly go striving for different things from what have stood you in good stead over a period of time then…

— Jonny Bairstow

With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more…

— Jonny Bairstow

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He…

— Jonny Bairstow

I've learnt - and this pleases me - that my dad's cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though…

— Jonny Bairstow