Cricketer Quotes

Don Bradman

Thomas Hughes

Beau Brummell

W. G. Grace

J. C. Ryle

Douglas Bader

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

If you have a love for the game of cricket, whether you are a player, an ex-player or simply an onlooker, many will be the pleasures in your life.

It has been a disappointing few months for all of us. We let down the fans, we let down the whole country. All we can do is stick to one combination, not try and change the team too much. Quick decisions won't solve this matter, we got to try and be patient.

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

[When asked if anyone would break his record of 307 wickets]If anyone beats it, they'll be bloody tired.

Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

Lionel Tennyson

To be No. 1 in sport you have to have a narrow tunnel vision. Dedication. You want to call it selfishness, arrogance, whatever. It's dog eat dog. There are no prisoners taken; there's none expected.

Bowl fast, bowl faster. When you play Test cricket you don't give Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

My goal is to play for Australia in all three formats of the game

Jimmy Carter had the air of a man who had never taken any decisions in his life. They had always taken him.

He revolutionised cricket. He turned it from an accomplishment into a science.

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

My fortune in cricket was to play when the first-class game was free and fast-flowing and with a county as concerned to play attractive and sporting cricket as to win.

Look. You are not playing for Delhi, Punjab, Madras, Calcutta or Bombay; you are playing for India. You are Indian.

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

I did not say that I wanted to stay over here. I still want to play for Pakistan and my state side there – my priority is with Pakistan for as long as they need me in Test cricket. In fact I am always there for them in any form of the game – Pakistan has given me the name to be playing cricket in England. If ever Pakistan didn't select me for three to four years in a row in any form of cricket then, and only then, would I think about coming over here.

No perfumes, but very fine linen, plenty of it, and country washing.

Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.

Edward Ernest Bowen

Sports officials must work with more responsibility to develop sports. Even under the good governance government some Sports Ministry officials don't carry out their duties properly as they are influenced by money and power. It is always sports clubs, institutions and sports personnel who pay the price for all misconducts of officials. To change this trend sports authority must take the necessary steps.

Arjuna Ranatunga

There are no chasms in science, and so long as knowledge is man's knowledge, it is one. The world is not made in compartments answering to university lectureships.

George Sandeman

I don't know, but I do know that if anyone does he'll be bloody tired.

This has been a big incident, hasn't in. In reality, James Anderson was a B-grade bowler who got his arse-whipped by Australia that many times it's not even funny. Frankly I don't care what he has to say but at least he has improved his bowling, thank goodness

Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have.

Aubrey Faulkner

Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.