Cricket Quotes

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

I love England and I love cricket.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

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.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Cricket was my reason for living.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.