Cricket Quotes
363 quotes by 216 authors
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I do love cricket - it's so very English.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
— Usain Bolt
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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy…
— Ian Botham
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
— Danny Boyle
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I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
— Bill Bryson
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets…
— Clinton Scollard
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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
— Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
— Alec Douglas-Home
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
— Lucretius
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
— Oscar Wilde
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Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.
— Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
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England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
— Robert Benchley
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When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.
— Donald Bradman
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The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to…
— Donald Bradman
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
— Steve Waugh
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I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to…
— Howard Evans
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into…
— Arthur Hopcraft
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Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens…
— Louis Agassiz
Who Wrote These Cricket Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 363 Cricket Quotes, led by these top contributors: