Top 475 Cricket Quotes

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

So I never forget how lucky I am. That’s the reason above all else why I’m determined to keep enjoying cricket, whatever the wins or the losses. As long as I do that then the runs will come.

It’s very important in international cricket to be able to hold a bat, not just hold up an end, but have the ability to score runs.

A lot has evolved and changed in women’s sport in the last 10 years – particularly football and cricket. So, I think my timing, in terms of being able to play both for a while, was fortunate.

I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

I’ve been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn’t I do so in my own country?

Playing cricket in England is what I am looking forward to, and I would love to bowl at Lord’s again.

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

I don’t study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I’ve played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

I like back-to-back Tests at the end of a series, without any county game in between. We know county cricket has no bearing on Test cricket.

I played cricket for the Delhi under-15 and 19 team. I was inspired by Imran Khan.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.

In domestic cricket – whether it is Ranji Trophy or other first class matches – in the first year, not many opponents will know about your game, but by the time you are into the third or fourth year, the opponents would have found out your strengths and weaknesses, and they will work on it.

Ambition is a funny thing. In cricket, as in many professions, it tends to take you on a journey away from where you started. That’s fine, maybe inevitable. But no one ever tells you that the biggest days aren’t always the best days. And the richest prizes aren’t the ones you remember.

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn’t brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

I love England and I love cricket.

Difference is respected and the environment Eoin Morgan has created is such that we are encouraged to transfer our personalities into our cricket.

At the end of the day, my job is to play cricket, and till the time I am playing against any opposition, I am happy.

I have played 20 years of international cricket for Pakistan and not the PCB.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it’s obviously really important for all of us to remain fit – and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after ‘Dangal.’

Throughout Yorkshire’s history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

I would like to thank all my captains who believed in me and backed me to the hilt. I also thank our greatest partner, the Indian cricket fan, for all the love, support, and memories.

I was just a regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket, and watching movies.

Emma wasn’t bothered about the fact that I was a ‘celebrity’, held in high esteem by millions of cricket fans around the world. As far as she was concerned, I was just her dad, and she believed that role should take priority over anything else.

What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Obviously, I’m enjoying my County stint. This is the first time I am playing County cricket and it’s a different experience. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime and everyone should play it.

If you keep winning, people will stay glued to our cricket.

When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I’d get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there’s a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don’t quite see that in the 20-over game – or the 100-ball game.

I have already established myself as Stuart Binny. I want to be known as a good player who served Karnataka cricket for more than a decade and also played Test cricket for country.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

Australia play best when they’ve got a bit of mongrel about them, when they play hard out in the middle, when they don’t give an inch, when they play an aggressive brand of cricket.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves – it’s not all laid-on luxury travel.

I and Virat have played cricket when we were youngsters back in Delhi. We were about 12 then. He had that spark in him and we knew he would play for India one day. He was a very good player then too.

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.

Whenever you play international cricket, there is always a challenge.

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was the only reason I started playing cricket in the first place. And thereafter it continued.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn’t get one.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.

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.

In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break – the farming means I have a really different life outside of cricket; it’s not just cricket, cricket, cricket for 12 months of the year.

MS Dhoni would know what’s best for him. He has served Indian cricket very well.

Dad played a very important role in my life. I always wanted to play cricket ,and my dream was his, too.

Earlier, I only used to get the ball into right handers. Over the years, I have developed some variations, thanks to first-class cricket and IPL.

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

The more you play Test cricket, you get to mature as Test player.

It’s the games you lose or struggle in that you learn most from in Test cricket.

I’m going to give international cricket one more crack. The Pakistan job seems like a perfect fit.

I have so far enjoyed my preparation with red ball cricket. The Duke ball swings a lot when you’re here in England, and initially, when I started playing here with India A, I realized that the swing will come a lot into play in these conditions.

I play cricket for the competitive side of it.

I’ll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I’ve still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don’t regret anything.

T20 in international cricket can almost be paid lip-service at times, with one game tagged on to the end of an ODI series or a long tour – sometimes it can feel like there is no point in playing it.

I don’t try and copy anyone in T20 cricket. My cricketing shots are inside out, behind the bowler, and other shots I have developed.

You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You’re away so much and then 18 months later, you’re around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.

I was inspired by the way the Aussies played their cricket. It was no-holds barred. They played to win.

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

My senior school didn’t play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.

For me, Test cricket at its best is all about ebb and flow of initiative, and it’s always a fascinating moment of the match for me when one sides snatches it from the other.