Cricket Quotes · Page 22

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

— Dutee Chand

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.

— Jonny Bairstow

I have had a craze for football since my schooldays; more than cricket I love football.

— Kalabhavan Mani

With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix…

— Nasser Hussain

My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

— Andrew Neil

It was always a dream to play Test cricket and get a first five-wicket haul over here.

— Jasprit Bumrah

When you go out to play in different conditions against different bowlers, it is always challenging.

— Shreyas Iyer

Any spinner can change the game. It's been proven in T20 cricket.

— Imran Tahir

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you…

— Denis Norden

People think you get tired quickly when you are a diabetic. But I have taken about 190 wickets in One Day International…

— Wasim Akram

“Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin's recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most…

— Amit Kalantri

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

— Ravi Shastri

I have nothing against the Indian people, and I have always enjoyed going to India, as the people there appreciate and support…

— Shahid Afridi

I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic…

— Sourav Ganguly

My first trip as a captain against Pakistan in 2003 - we had never won there before, but then we won both…

— Sourav Ganguly

Who says we can't win the World Cup and the Ashes in the same year? Oh yes we can. It all goes…

— Jonny Bairstow

There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so…

— Michael Jackson

It's incredible what the Sydney Test has become - it's now iconically the pink Sydney Test. It's the sixth year that the…

— Glenn McGrath

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some…

— Adam Gilchrist

Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A…

— Anonymous

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the…

— Octavio Paz

“Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the…

— Mark Ellis

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends…

— Imtiaz Ali

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be…

— Geoffrey Boycott

Test cricket is pretty much the same as first-class - know what your strengths are and stick to them.

— Jofra Archer

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

— Joseph O'Neill

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

— Frank Woolley

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

— Dale Steyn

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

— George Bernard Shaw

Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It's a game of bat and ball.

— K. L. Rahul

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

I think Kohli is magnificent in a run chase, I have to say. He has won so many matches for India.

— Nasser Hussain

It's a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.

— Brian Lara

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

— Bill Bryson

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

— Jonathan Agnew

With the cricket, I knew what I was doing - to a degree.

— Andrew Flintoff

You try to make sure you have respect for the opposition but still play to win and play hard cricket.

— Joe Root

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

— Jonathan Agnew

You bowl according to situations - whether at the death or at the beginning.

— Jasprit Bumrah