Cricket Quotes

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

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 tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

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

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

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.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

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.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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?

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?