Cricket Quotes

It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

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

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

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

I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

Sachin is cricket's God.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

We lost the crickets.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

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

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

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

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

I love England and I love cricket.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

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.

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

Well, all cricket invites attention.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

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