I was a professional cricketer from 16.

I was a professional cricketer for 16 years.

— Andrew Flintoff

I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily,…

— Jonathan Agnew

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

— Steve Waugh

“Hobbs and Sutcliffe. More than any other players in those years they raised the status of the professional cricketer.”

— Stephen Chalke

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from…

— Harbhajan Singh

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

— Ellyse Perry

I am a mature, professional cricketer who fully fathoms the trends and experiences the game has to offer.

— Shahid Afridi

It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

— Virender Sehwag

All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into…

— Mithali Raj

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

— Mark Lawrenson

It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

— Kapil Dev

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

— Margaret Hughes

As a cricketer, you need to keep moving and learning every day.

— Vijay Shankar

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

— Hardik Pandya