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    And Canada were doing all right and you think, 'No, this can't be happening.'" It was pitiful, but he had already been through worse. "I had to face the coach [Duncan Fletcher] and the captain [Michael Vaughan], and then do a pretty tricky press conference, but it was even tougher to make the phone calls home and explain what had happened to my wife and my mum." Which was the harder call to make? Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    I had to face the coach [Duncan Fletcher] and the captain [Michael Vaughan], and then do a pretty tricky press conference, but it was even tougher to make the phone calls home and explain what had happened to my wife and my mum.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
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Big interview: Andrew Flintoff
  1. I'd just give it a cheeky grin
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  2. My dad got me into the game
    Andrew Flintoff – Andrew Flintoff SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  3. It's going to be hard because it will hit home that I'm not playing Test cricket any more. It's one thing sitting here and talking about it. It'll be something else when the toss goes up and the sides walk out and I'm sat on the couch, or watching it in the gym. That'll be the moment I realise a part of...
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  4. We'd just lost the Ashes in Perth, and I'm staring down the barrel at 5‑0. I bought all this pressure on me because I wanted to do so well and I couldn't do anything to stop it. At that point it was safe to say it to my family. I just broke down.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  5. I've made mistakes and I've learnt a lot about myself. I've got a tendency to … I don't know … not do the right thing. I'm sure in the future I'll make other mistakes but whatever's happened so far has made me what I am now. There've been hard times but I've come out, on the other side, the better for i...
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  6. I'll play the odd one. If the team is struggling with injury or they want me, I'd like to do that. But I want to play for England and I won't jeopardise that. I've got lots of ambition left with England. I want to win a World Cup. I want to win Twenty20 tournaments.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  7. It was on Mother's Day as well, so it was bad. Those phone calls were harder than anything. My family's had a lot to deal with the last few years.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  8. and that's why I think differently when people look at my Test career and say, if not for injury, I could have done X, Y or Z. For me, a big achievement was just actually getting out on a cricket field.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  9. I didn't look at them ones.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago

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