118 Cricket Quotes
Following is our list of cricket quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about playing cricket.
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Famous Cricket Quotes
Cricket is basically baseball on valium. — Robin Williams
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. — Harold Pinter
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. — W. G. Grace
Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket. — Saina Nehwal
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. — Michael Hussey
As a cricketer you just can’t sit at one place and do nothing. — Smriti Mandhana
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. — Imran Khan
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. — Ian Botham
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves. — Grantland Rice
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that’s been the pinnacle for me with cricket. — Ellyse Perry
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
This will sound awkward, but I always wanted to be a professional cricketer. — Martyn Ford
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek
Short Cricket Quotes
- I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. — Rahul Dravid
- It is not summer until the crickets sing — Greek Proverbs
- As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times — Sourav Ganguly
- I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's — Sachin Tendulkar
- Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
- A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. — Neville Cardus
- I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra. — Smriti Mandhana
- I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. — Keith Miller
- We need to understand that the revenue which we get is through men’s cricket. — Smriti Mandhana
- Dravid Could play attacking cricket like me but i could never play like him — Chris Gayle
Cricket Image Quotes
Inspiring Cricket Quotes
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman
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A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country. — Shahid Afridi
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde
I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket. — Virat Kohli
Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers — Rahul Dravid
Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them. — Richard Lloyd
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven. — Donald Bradman
Playing Cricket Quotes
I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. — Satya Nadella
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. — Shane Warne
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket — Virender Sehwag
I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery. — Jonathan Trott
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
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. — Sachin Tendulkar
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting — Barack Obama
Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time — Wasim Akram
Cricket Match Quotes
The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has the same desire to do well for India in any international match. I tell you what, this man is a legend. — Sourav Ganguly
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. — Aneurin Bevan
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. — Sunil Gavaskar
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. — Paul Hogan
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
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. — Andre Maurois
I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending. — Virat Kohli
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. — Sachin Tendulkar
Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood. — Sunny Deol
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points. — J. B. Priestley
Wickets Quotes
Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. — Suresh Raina
If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life — Brett Lee
Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn’t play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally. — Muttiah Muralitharan
The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia. — Shane Warne
I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall. — Muttiah Muralitharan
Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing — Harsha Bhogle
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player. — Shane Warne
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. — Douglas Adams
It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes. — Sachin Tendulkar
Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well. — Shahrukh Khan
Croquet Quotes
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? — Jeanette Winterson
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor. — Rose Macaulay
Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be! — Cheshire Cat
I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed? — Frank McCourt
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. — Lewis Carroll
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't. — K. J. Bishop
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. — Ray Davies
I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness. — David Brooks
If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore. — Meg Cabot
People Writing About Cricket
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Smriti Mandhana |
19 | 1 |
_(cropped).jpg) Robin Williams |
401 | 3446 |
 Harold Pinter |
83 | 965 |
 Saina Nehwal |
14 | 208 |
 Imran Khan |
66 | 1180 |
 Ian Botham |
34 | 120 |
More Cricket Quotes
From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers. — Daniel Quinn
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. — Donald Bradman
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. — Henry David Thoreau
There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up. — Smriti Mandhana
I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him — Hansie Cronje
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that — Simon Schama
The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before — Trevor Bailey
It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day. — Matthew Hayden
Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them. — Kumar Sangakkara
Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years. — Kumar Sangakkara
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding — Ian Chappell
Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format. — Vijay Kedia
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. — Sayings
Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third. — Shane Warne
There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others — Andy Flower
The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters! — Michael Vaughan
There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger. — Arjuna Ranatunga
I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name. — Vijender Singh
Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia. — Donald Bradman
I would have to say it has been representing my county in both athletics and cricket in my younger years. — Martyn Ford
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