Cricket Quotes · Page 21

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a…

— David Seaman

“Pray God that no professional will ever captain England.”

— Martin Hawke

My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.

— Donovan Bailey

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

— Alastair Cook

I am working towards it, and it is a dream to play Test matches for India.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

Everyone knows I've got a pretty passionate outlook on my cricket - and sometimes it does get the better of me.

— Stuart Broad

If you want to to be a smart cricketer, you have to play according to the situation.

— Hardik Pandya

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

— Jeremy London

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried…

— Sourav Ganguly

But if you have got a batsman out three or four times in the same series then you are in business -…

— Glenn McGrath

I used to play tennis ball cricket quite a lot before playing serious cricket. Over there, you bowl yorkers. That could be…

— Jasprit Bumrah

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In…

— Charles Simic

I am very happy that the doors have opened for sportspersons. But I think the first Bharat Ratna should have been given…

— Milkha Singh

The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India…

— Sourav Ganguly

It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much…

— Vetrimaaran

For me, Test cricket at its best is all about ebb and flow of initiative, and it's always a fascinating moment of…

— Jonathan Agnew

Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e . He found things like…

— Anthony Horowitz

The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still…

— Harbhajan Singh

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That…

— Brian O'Driscoll

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge…

— Harbhajan Singh

I found Ricky Ponting the hardest to bowl to and it was a great pleasure to play against him as he was…

— Stuart Broad

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands,…

— Bill Bryson

The World Cup 2015 will be a stage for youngsters to make names for themselves and earn the respect and recognition of…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

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

— Clifford Longley

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

— Shahid Afridi

I see myself as a proper all-rounder and not bowling or batting all- rounder.

— Hardik Pandya

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

— Sachin Tendulkar

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

— Brian Lara

I think nobody has the right to talk about Sachin Tendulkar's game. It's just a phenomenon.

— Sourav Ganguly

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

— Brett Lee

Everyone remember's the last shot of World T20 2007, but forget who brought the match to the last over.

— Misbah-ul-Haq

The basic remains the same, whether you're playing test cricket, one-day cricket or Twenty20 cricket.

— Mayank Agarwal

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

— Tariq Ali

Kohli is always fired up, very animated on the field and plays with passion.

— James Anderson

Whenever opportunity comes Kohli grabs it with both the hands.

— Anushka Sharma

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

— Shane Warne

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

— Sachin Tendulkar

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

— Prithvi Shaw

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

— Ian Peebles