Top 60 Steve Smith Quotes

You can’t score runs if you’re sitting in the dressing room.

It really gave me a lot of confidence to know that I could score runs against some really good bowlers.

I don’t like being back in the sheds, I prefer being out in the middle and just doing my thing.

I would call myself a cricket nuffie. I love watching cricket. But I’ve found other things in my life.

People can talk about whatever they want, doesn’t mean I have it in my head.

A Boxing Day Test match is a fantastic occasion.

It depends upon the make-up of the team where I’m going to bat.

It’s great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn’t sit right with me when you don’t win it.

I have always seen myself more as a batsman than a bowler.

I’ve faced a lot of short pitched bowling in my life and haven’t had too many issues with it.

I’ve just aimed to go out with a clear mind; to try not to premeditate my shots and if I’m going to play a few big shots I try to have a few deliveries under my belt first; have my eye in a bit better.

I just want to keep playing good cricket and winning games of cricket.

It’s what I always wanted to do, play in the Australian side as a batsman.

That’s pretty important to me – to make sure I’m leading from the front.

It’s always tough playing India in India.

For me, it’s about having energy in the field and making sure I’m having fun and making sure everyone else around is having fun, whether it be telling a joke or something like that. It’s to make sure we’re all upbeat and we’re ready to go.

I think I’ve been able to withstand pressure and know that things get easier and I think, when they’ve got easier, I’ve cashed in.

With training for T20, I try to clear the fence a lot.

There are a lot of carbs in beer.

When you’re in good form and hitting the ball well you want to keep playing as much as you can and not have too much of a break.

I watch the game pretty closely and think of a few things that I’d do perhaps differently to what’s going on and throw up ideas here and there as well.

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that’s for sure.

I love to speak to Brad Haddin, Simon Katich. All different people. Quality people with opinions I can trust.

My job is to score runs and hopefully I can continue to do that.

My record probably is better when I’m captain than when I’m not. That sort of pressure doesn’t really bother me.

It’s just about getting those runs on the board and the more I can do that, the more I can put my name up there.

It’s the pinnacle of Australian cricket, playing in an Ashes series.

I’ve certainly had some difficult days. But it’s OK to be vulnerable.

I have always self-coached. It’s something that I am big on.

I think and visualise before I play where people are likely to bowl to me and where I am likely to score and try to picture fields that are set and play things over in my mind, where I am going to get runs and how they are looking to get me out.

We don’t go out there to try and lose games of cricket, we go out there to try and win and play the best way we can.

T20 certainly is great for innovation.

If it takes me 300 balls to get a 100, then it’ll take me 300 balls. That’ll also tire the bowlers quite a bit too, so it’s a bit of a win-win if that’s the case.

You never know in T20 cricket. Anyone can have a day out and take the game away from you.

I think everyone is vulnerable to a moving ball. It’s about just trying to find a way to have a solid defence and a game plan that can work in those conditions.

During a Test match I am not a very good sleeper, mainly because I am visualising. Everything is positive. Nothing negative.

An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers – and English cricketers for that matter – and there’s always that added pressure.

The thing for me is my defence: as long as my defence is in good order then I feel the rest of my game can expand from there.

I think you always need some luck when you score big runs.

When you’re under pressure and your heart’s pumping, you almost go back to what you know.

First and foremost I’m a batsman in the side and that’s my job, to score runs.

I’ll just do my own thing and just keep working hard to play hard.

I’d love to play every game.

Obviously, I did not start my Test career too well. With the bat, I was probably not quite ready to play at that stage. I was happy to go back to first-class system and learn my game a bit more, honing my skills, particularly my defence and patience.

For me, it’s about making sure the mental side of my game is in a good place; if it is, then it’s just about backing your ability when you are out in the middle and doing what you can for the team.

I don’t like bowling that much. Every now and then, it’s fine.

Particularly when I’m batting, I don’t really hear anything that’s going on. I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when I’m fielding but then again, it’s just words. It doesn’t affect me. If people want to say things then go for it.

If I am bowling in a game, that means we’re in trouble. So hopefully, it doesn’t happen too often.

I actually think I play better with pressure, that extra pressure when the team needs something more and things like that.

I think the higher you can bat in your Shield team, if you’re doing well there the better off you’re going to be for batting anywhere in the Test line-up or any of the line-ups.

To be able to say I am an Ashes-winning captain… just hearing those words and saying them myself is pretty special.

To be dropped is not a nice thing.

I am comfortable with five-days. I like the challenge of a five-day Test.

I try to be as honest as I can and that’s the best way to do things.

I think the Australian public would love to see the best Australian team on the park for every game. It’s difficult to do that with the schedule and how much we play.

There has been a lot of talk of the four-day Tests but I like five-days. I don’t make the decisions of how it all works out but five-day Tests is what it is all about.

I guess everyone is entitled their opinion and how they want to treat people, but it is water of a duck’s back.

It depends on who’s bowling, how is the wicket playing, how I gonna score and stuff like that or how people are trying to get me out, probably that determines how open I am or otherwise how closed I am.

I’ve played a lot of T20 cricket and know the game.

I don’t like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.