Cricket Quotations

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

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

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

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

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

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.

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

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

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

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

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

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.

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.

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

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

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

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

I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

I dedicate my store to my birthplace. People over there look very good and have got purchasing power, too, and I think since there are no fashion shops in Ghaziabad, they would want to visit my boutique all the more. And I don't play cricket for all 12 months. So when I'm not playing, I can spend my time looking after my business and develop it.

In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

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

I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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

Ninety percent of the revenue generated in Australian cricket is off the back of the players. To even consider reducing investment in elite cricket makes absolutely no sense and in our opinion would have a direct effect on the success of the Australian team, and in turn the money available to actually redirect to community cricket.

Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players underpaid. Like Packer, Stanford is a visionary putting money where his mouth is.

Some new fast bowlers have been selected so that they get a feel of things. We have strictly gone by performances in domestic cricket while choosing the team.

One of my co-workers said that cricket lovers were naturally anally retentive. I told him to shut up and to never use my tea mug for coffee again.

No one understands cross country; no one is interested in the U.S.. Sponsorship and recognition are hard to get. It's like cricket in Norway.

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'

potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.

No doubt the Australian public is talking about the tight Ashes battle that we're currently in, and hopefully, that can whet people's appetites for even more great cricket in October.

Obviously he is very upset and disappointed but I have told him we will continue to support him and there is still quite a bit of cricket left in him.

Obviously New Zealand has been playing better cricket than us but we back ourselves, if we perform well, to be very competitive against them.

Now that's too much cricket but I can't help it.

I got the distinct impression Warne was the pseudo-captain during the fifth Test. There is no doubt Warne has an amazing cricket brain - but not only that, any cricket he plays is full of passion, (courage) and determination.

If we create good facilities, then youngsters will want to play cricket at their local clubs.

If we play good cricket, we should win,

If we can get that then that will be so important to the development of our cricket because it will allow us to play outside the country, get lots of experience and mean we will need to improve our facilities and infrastructure at home.

Mills is recovering from his groin strain but does not have enough recent cricket to be considered for section. He will be returning to club cricket this weekend before the team for the remainder of the one-day series is announced.

Mike will be working across a number of programs within Australian cricket with his area of expertise in fielding and throwing.

Shane is a wonderful cricketer and I'm sure he has all the attributes of a good captain. He has a good cricket mind and he helps Ricky a lot.

Simply because he encourages you to enjoy cricket without fear of failure.

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

Olivia and James, Joe and Tom had a field day playing cricket in the garden of the villa against Uncle Fred, with a hard rubber ball, ... Freddie is brilliant with kids.

We won't have a long duration camp. We had lot of cricket over the last few months. So, we will probably get together only the day before we leave for Pakistan.

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

He (John Howard) follows cricket very closely and did so from New York during the fifth Ashes Test.

He is probably right (about the) longer format, one-day cricket or like Twenty20 cricket the shorter the game the more of a bit of a lottery it can become,

Ideally, with Michael probably back, it lessens the burden on Andrew and can free him up to play the exciting cricket he plays.

Given the impoverished state of the counties, I realise the England and Wales Cricket Board faced a difficult decision,

I am sure in future they will come up with a plan like the Ashes which ensures that there is not too much and not too little cricket played. I think you got to get the right balance.

Fox's comprehensive cricket coverage over the coming summers is a must for all Australian cricket fans.

Frankford was set up the same way as Green Bay, about 1899, ... The Frankford Athletic Association ran football, baseball and cricket teams, up until 1931.

Gillespie ... was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form.

If you are a Swede living in Sweden, Portugal and Italy you don't know much about cricket. We don't understand, we have never played it. If you live in England, you should go to see it at least once to know something about it.

I don't think it should be too bad. I've seen back home in cricket, you have the third umpire for run-outs, stuff like that. It all happens pretty quickly.

Glenn isn't expecting to hold his existing place on the list. He was fairly high last year and he is realistic about things this time around. We will meet with Cricket Australia and find out officially where he is in the next couple of weeks. But he is expecting to slip a bit, just hopefully not too much.

For us to restore the lost glory of cricket in the country, my new office decided to change the name and start afresh.

I believe the Cricket Committee will be conducting their discussions over the phone. But I expect, within three days, we'll have an answer to who will be the new West Indies captain.

But as he walks away he can be proud that many people all around the world are sad to see him go - cricket will be poorer without him.

But states need to find the balance between playing older guys who have perhaps missed the opportunity to play international cricket and the young guys coming through chasing that dream.

I'm at a loss for words. That is my best moment in cricket by far.

I have been doing very well in domestic cricket during the last two years. I was hopeful of getting a berth in Team India.

What we have done is made sure that we've safeguarded the future of English cricket.

We're playing some good cricket and everyone in the team is contributing. We ran away with this one.

I have spoken to the cricket board presidents of the other Test nations from Asia (Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) and have reached an understanding.

We have to ask ourselves how serious we are about beating Australia, ... Everything in this English cricket series should centre on the main Test series. It doesn't.

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket

He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time

I am looking to be back into the game, it's been a while and it's getting a bit frustrating. As you all know, I want to play cricket and I'll see what happens from here on.