Cricket Quotes

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

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

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

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

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.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the only way out. So I will keep playing.

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

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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

Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

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.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.

I put my heart, soul and tears into the game and this is what I get. I don't know what to do. My wife can't sleep at night. I hold my daughter all night. I am ashamed I played cricket.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.

Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.