Cricket Quotes

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

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

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

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

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Cricket is my first love.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

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.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.