Cricket Quotes

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

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

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.

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.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

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.

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

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

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

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.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

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

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

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

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.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

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

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.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

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

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

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

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

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