Cricket Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.