Cricket Quotes

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

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

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Cricket is my first love.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.