Paul Collingwood Quotations

If we can get a couple early on Friday and put them under pressure we're in with a good shout.

Humidity, rather than the sun, will be the key issue here. But we're professional players who have played around the world in different conditions.

Kumble is a world-class bowler. He is tough to play on any wicket.

Kumble is a great bowler having taken close to 500 wickets. He is a difficult bowler to face on any wicket.

We were 3-1 down the last time and managed to take it to three-all.

We're two down, but are taking a lot of positives from these matches.

We were talking about it this morning, saying we're the new Surrey!

It would be easy to get caught up with the defeats to India in the one-day series, but when you look back on the tour as a whole it is far from being all doom and gloom.

As long as I keep batting like that hopefully I can change people's minds.

It was easy to work out what went wrong in the second Test - we failed to score a big enough first innings total - and Anil Kumble had a big part to play in that.

It's a big relief to get a hundred.

It's a major challenge but everybody is looking forward to it.

It was a pretty good ball, I should've got further up.

It was a great relief for me as well as everyone else in the dressing room when I got there. I've been waiting for that a long time. I got over a little hurdle when I made that first big score in Pakistan. That gave me the belief to kick on and I knew that my first hundred wouldn't be far away, as long as I applied myself as I did there.

The new group structure this year is sure to intensify the rivalry between teams.

The last three batsmen did a fantastic job and played a big part to help me along. It wasn't easy to time your shots or penetrate the field.

I like the pitches out here. You have to get yourself in and you have to scrap all the time for your runs, which I enjoy.

A great relief. I have been waiting for that for a long time.

The crucial thing with Kumble, even on wickets that don?t turn, is his variation in pace, which is very hard to read.

The derby games are the best ones, ... I always remember beating them at St James' in 1999. It was pouring with rain and we were drenched but very, very happy. Kevin Phillips popped one in the top corner and we were singing 'Can we play you every week?' The Newcastle fans were fuming.