Cricket Quotes · Page 40

“Hey, Cricket. Give me five.” Honestly, it would have been better if he’d told me to fuck off.”

— Anonymous

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

— Libba Bray

“No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.”

— Barack Obama

Look, I was the captain of India for five years. I was one of the stars, a popular face in India.

— Sourav Ganguly

School cricket is where we all start. The journey of a cricketer starts from there, and it was the same for me.

— Prithvi Shaw

The more you win, the brand of women's cricket will go higher.

— Mithali Raj

I want men to see that women aren't only good in the kitchen, but can play cricket too.

— Rakhi Sawant

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

— James Whitcomb Riley

All I do is work hard. Try and work on my bowling and keep improving every day. That's the key to success…

— Imran Tahir

Cricket and tennis are very different skill sets, but I've played tennis all my life, so it's a lot easier coming back…

— Ashleigh Barty

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to…

— Garfield Sobers

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic…

— Kapil Dev

No matter what, I was always looking for a wicket. Whether I was bowling to restrict or bowling to get wickets, at…

— Anil Kumble

When I was aspiring to play for India, I'd look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were…

— Dinesh Karthik

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn…

— Nasser Hussain

Rahul Dravid is my role model. I always used to watch him on the television. Now I get to interact with him…

— Ajinkya Rahane

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a…

— Brian Lara

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back…

— Stuart Broad

Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the…

— Virat Kohli

England Women regularly play against Under-15 and U-17 county men's sides, which is great for the girls to take them out of…

— Isa Guha

“What we’re trying to do is write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little…

— Tom Stoppard

It is important as a bowler that you always need to have a presence. If you lose that you lose quite a…

— Stuart Broad

“In the first Test of the 1938 Ashes series, Eddie Paynter and Stan McCabe became the first players on opposing sides to…

— Rodney Ulyate

“One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening…

— Gideon Haigh

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

— Donald Bradman

I feel England is the most difficult place for a bowler.

— Jasprit Bumrah

The hardest batsman to get out. I think Sachin, technically, didn't have a weakness.

— Michael Clarke

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

— Virender Sehwag

Getting two hundreds in a T20 tournament like the Maharaja Trophy feels amazing.

— Mayank Agarwal

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

— Andrew Strauss

I was just a regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket, and watching movies.

— Vicky Kaushal

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

— Nasser Hussain

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

— AB de Villiers

I believe it's a wrong conclusion to draw that Indians can't play spin bowling.

— Shikhar Dhawan

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

— Rachel Griffiths

Wickets are like wives, you never know which way they will turn!

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

— Dale Steyn

Unlike cricket or tennis, athletics receive no money and so it remains a poor man's sport.

— P. T. Usha

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

— Dan Quayle