Cricket Quotes
- Page 2One 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.
Hugh Jackman
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar
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.
Imran Khan
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.
Harold Larwood
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.
Andy Pick
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.
Sachin Tendulkar
I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
Frank Woolley
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Hansie Cronje
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.
Frank Woolley
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.
Sachin Tendulkar
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
Imran Khan
I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
Henry Chadwick
If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
Sachin Tendulkar
Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.
Matthew Hayden
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Steve Waugh
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.
Sachin Tendulkar
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.
Andy Pick
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.
Sachin Tendulkar