Cricket Quotes

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

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.

I love England and I love cricket.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

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.

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

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

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Cricket was my reason for living.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

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.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

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.

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.

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

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

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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.