Cricket Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.