Cricket Quotes

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Cricket is my first love.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

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

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

I love England and I love cricket.

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

There is no reason why one should believe you should leave out politicians in cricket or any sport for that matter. There are ways and means in which government can assist in the management and development of players.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

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

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.