Michael Vaughan Quotes (80 Quotes)


    We've not won here for 21 years, that should come as an incentive to the boys.

    I had an injection on Wednesday night, tested it at nets yesterday and am going to monitor it over the next 48 hours.

    The knee is all right. It's been four weeks since the operation. I've done rehab and I've just started running indoors on soft surfaces in the last few days. You need a little bit of luck but if that stays with me I'm sure I will be fine for the tour.

    Spin hasn't bowled many teams out here. We'll make a decision pretty late.

    We want to have a good long chat with Freddie. It's his home ground, he knows the conditions. Over the last year or so we haven't played that much here. We want to look at the options - normal swing, reverse swing, bounce, all the areas you cover at any game of cricket. We'll just have a good chat this afternoon.


    My next biggest challenge is to survive another night with Freddie.

    It's nice to pick up a bat again, but it's very early days so there's nothing to report. I'm just hoping for a bit of luck now.

    It's a bit of a lottery but we played some good cricket. Today was our day. I don't think it will have any impact on the five-day matches to come.


    It's been an emotional summer of cricket, fantastic for the game. I can't praise the players and management enough.

    It is important, with winter approaching, that the plight of those needing blankets and tents in the earthquake zone is not forgotten,

    It was a fantastic game of cricket and we came within a wicket of going 2-1 up. I'm very pleased with the team and the way we dominated the whole match against a tough Australian side. Three weeks ago we were written off and 5-0 we kept hearing. There are a few tired bodies and minds on both teams but it's great the way this series has got the nation talking about it.

    Cricket has captured the imagination of the nation, this if fantastic, beyond a dream. When England players win at any sport, the fans are the best in the world.

    This is the most exciting part of the winter and South Africa are a good team who will provide a good test for us.

    I fully expected two more hard days of cricket, but I said before the match that it needed a couple of magical performances and, thankfully for us, Steve produced one today.

    It's a great opportunity for the three guys who haven't played much Test cricket.

    We have a good idea of what they're going to come up with, we've got a lot of footage and a lot of players have played against them.

    The one-day team is a little bit below the Test team at the minute, but we are building for 2007 and the World Cup. As a team and players, we had a lot of self-belief that we could turn things around (after first Test defeat at Lord's), and we also have a lot of self-belief we can do very well in the World Cup come 2007.

    It is obviously disappointing to lose Ashley Giles, our most experienced spin bowler. At the same time, it is a great opportunity for the three guys here.

    Its definitely not an ideal start to have had going into the Test matches. He's such a good player, and he was probably our best batsman on occasion, so it's a big blow.

    I don't see any reason why this young team should not go out and play the same game they have done over the past few weeks, go out and enjoy it and give it their all because that's all they can do and see where it takes us, ... This week is a great opportunity for the team to cement their place in the history of the game of cricket and it's great that we are in a position to do that.

    Along with the rest of the country, I will be following the team's progress in the final Test with great interest and wish you the best of luck in your battle to regain the Ashes.

    I thought we started the Test match at Lord's very well and for a day and a half we were good and then Australia took the game away from us - we've got to make sure we keep our performance levels up for a sustained period of play.

    I had a light net today to test out the knee but it is still too early to say whether the injection has had an effect and we will just have to wait and see how it responds over the next 48 hours.

    It certainly gave you a feeling that the Ashes mean so much to so many people and the nation, to see people hanging out of the windows at work, to see kids waving in the streets certainly tells me that the game of cricket has hit home.

    Whether or not he was sent in by their coach I'm not too sure. But I just call him 'the witness' now and I don't think he likes it.

    South Africa played the better cricket over the five day and put us under a lot of pressure,

    The players will have to make some technical changes to do well after their win at home.

    Simon Jones bowled exceptionally well in the first innings, so after losing him, the bowlers in the second innings deserve a lot of credit, ... They kept running in on a placid wicket that was really very slow. We had to use all our resources to whittle out those ten wickets and restrict them to a total where we only had to chase 130.

    This is probably the first time the knee has felt like a concern. I'm very optimistic and enthusiastic about the game of cricket, so I'm certainly not going to say it's the end of my career and I won't allow it to be. There's been older and better players than me that have spent years out of cricket with injury and come back pretty well, so, hopefully, I'll be the same.

    We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

    We will test it on Monday and make a decision after the training session.

    We go to Pakistan and India and if we win, the rankings might change but we haven't looked at the rankings, we want to beat Australia this summer.

    It's been a long night. We've celebrated in true English fashion.

    It's never happened before, we're pretty pleased with the 11 that's played for us in the games so far. Over the last few years, Australia has had an 11 they play very, very regularly. If they change it, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing. We'll just have to wait and see.

    You can blame a long schedule and a long series but we won't be trying to make that an excuse,

    Andrew's a true sporting hero. I'm very lucky to be his captain.

    We can't go anywhere without people wishing us luck. It's great to know that the nation will be right behind us when we take on the Aussies.

    It's the first net and it was nice to pick up a bat again. It's early days and I'm just getting used to jogging again. I'm just hoping for a bit of luck now.

    This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the Queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys. She was saying she watched the series avidly - but not all the time, because it all got too tense for her and was a bit nerve-wracking. It is fantastic to be here for the whole side.

    Our batters, and especially our bowlers in the heat - it has been a real team effort. on winning the South Africa series, 2005

    England fans are very clever and have special ways of getting tickets and I'm sure we'll be well supported in Australia.

    We'll do well to learn from our defeats in Pakistan, we aim to move ahead.

    People say to stay in the same seat but we were losing that many wickets there was not a right seat to be in,

    I feel I've got better in the last year-and-a-half since I moved to number three.

    You have to keep building and it's so important we keep getting young players pushing the team and making sure everybody stays honest,

    She just said she'd been watching the Ashes and she couldn't watch it all because it got too nerve-wracking, and I said so it was for us as well.

    It's the second time in two tours that I'm going to be traveling home with an injury. This one is really similar to the one in Pakistan. Unfortunately the workload has increased on this trip and the knee hasn't withstood that. It's time to go back and see the specialist, do whatever we can and make sure I come back fitter.

    We have been on the ropes for three games and the final knock-out blow was today. You can only keep taking so many punches, but we could not withstand any more.

    I suppose he has the chance to kind of shove it down our throats and prove us wrong to drop him,


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