Brian Lara

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

— Brian Lara

Sports will equip kids with the necessary tools to face academic challenges, and provide all-round development.

— Brian Lara

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

— Brian Lara

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

— Brian Lara

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

— Brian Lara

You don't need a group of superstars, you need a team working together to bring you better results.

— Brian Lara

I believe cricket is a harder game. If at age six you started both sports you'd excel at golf more.

— Brian Lara

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

— Brian Lara

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

— Brian Lara

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on -…

— Brian Lara

I don't see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about…

— Brian Lara

It's a cliche that cricket is the only unifying force in the Caribbean. It is but there are a lot of other…

— Brian Lara

It doesn't matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board.…

— Brian Lara

KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if…

— Brian Lara

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone…

— Brian Lara

I have a lot of people I respect and a lot of people I have time for - reciprocity isn't necessary.

— Brian Lara

When you've got an opportunity to try and finish a game on a given day, you try and do that.

— Brian Lara

It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in…

— Brian Lara

I want to be a consistent individual. I want to be someone my team can depend on all the time.

— Brian Lara

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

— Brian Lara

After cricket I'd love to build a family, I'd love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into…

— Brian Lara

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

— Brian Lara

Every senior player has to play a part and help the skipper by performing their duties on the field and secondly by…

— Brian Lara

We had thousands of people outside Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at…

— Brian Lara

My dad made sure he gave me everything, he sacrificed what he had to, to make sure I had what I needed…

— Brian Lara

With all franchise cricket going on around in the world, the intensity of the game, sometimes is a burden.

— Brian Lara

I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself…

— Brian Lara

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

— Brian Lara

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums.…

— Brian Lara