Cricket Quotes

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

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.

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

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

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.

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

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.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

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

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.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.