“I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particula...” — Moeen Ali Quote

“I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, to get away from the scrutiny and intensity. I love it but it was too much for me.”

“If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.”

“I think my dad always believed I would play for England, probably more than I believed it, but it never crossed our minds that we weren't going to make it.”

“I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”

“I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.”

“When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.”