I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

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 the pitch.

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.

I'm not keen on making predictions.