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.

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.

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

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

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

Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.