Cricket Quotes

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.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

The only two areas in which India was very proud about their country, representing itself on the field: One was war [and] the other was Indian 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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

If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

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

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

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

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

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.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

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

Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game.

I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

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.