Cricketer Quotes

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.

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.

He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.

I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.

Alfred Cochrane

Our cricket was completely uninhibited by tactical thoughts or any other subtleties. We were never coached, all our practice came from playing in the streets of Signal Hill, where we lived, and some of us would get hauled off to jail by the police if we were caught. Playing in the street was an offence for us.

Basil D'Oliveira

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.

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

Aubrey Faulkner

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

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

I was brought up to believe that cricket is the most important activity in men's lives, the most important thread in the fabric of the cosmos.

Bernard Hollowood

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

The attack on the Sri Lankans means we should brace ourselves for some tough times.

To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual.

I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It is 16 years since I played my first Test match for India and today I feel it is an time to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling

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

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

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.

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

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

… I am not, and never have been, a Soviet agent.

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Pakistan is where I'm from - it was where I was born, it was where I was brought up. I've got a lot of affection towards Pakistan.

If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

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

Lionel Tennyson

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

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.

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.