Top 55 Brian Lara Quotes

If there’s one thing I don’t have, it’s an insular bone.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one’s goals.

It’s an honour to captain the West Indies.

Having a decent place to live is fundamental for families.

MS Dhoni is an asset in any team he plays for.

I try to read spinners and dictate to them, but they know very quickly if you’re not reading them or if you’re not confident.

KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he’s made for.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

It’s a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.

I’ve played and I’ve been a student of the game.

I really enjoyed the period in which I played my cricket. I can look back now and wish I started 10 years later and played in the T20s. But I also wish I was born 10 years earlier so that I could have been part of the all-conquering West Indies team of that time.

It doesn’t matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board. One person can’t get 400 runs on the board if there is nobody at the other end.

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

Attacking players are the ones who are best suited to break a record.

I have a lot of people I respect and a lot of people I have time for – reciprocity isn’t necessary.

When I was a kid, Test was the form of the game everybody wanted to watch.

You just don’t pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game.

The highest-ranked team in the world has the responsibility to ensure that the integrity of the game is upheld every single time they play. And that the spirit of cricket is with them every time they enter the field.

This is a moment I will cherish forever… the first man to score 500 runs.

I don’t play politics.

Even I lost a series of Test matches as skipper.

After cricket I’d love to build a family, I’d love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into something special.

First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World – Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.

I believe cricket is a harder game. If at age six you started both sports you’d excel at golf more.

I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say ‘I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket.’

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that’s where the game is going.

Getting into your 30s, you don’t feel the same as in your early 20s.

I’ve had many ups and downs in my career. I’ve worked really hard on my game throughout.

I appreciate every batsman in the world for different reasons. If I want someone to tough it out in the middle, I’d pick Steve Waugh. If I want someone who I know is going to have the technique to survive, you want a player like Tendulkar.

I had to work hard… but I knew I had strong support.

I don’t see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about cricket. Not just batting but cricket in general and I am ready to impart with any information or advice I have.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren’t there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.

As a boy, you never really thought of Hall of Fames, you never really thought of records.

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

A guy who is walking out of his crease purposefully because he wants to take advantage is wrong.

I have enjoyed playing in England, and have enjoyed the reception I’ve got from the people here.

I am always committed to West Indies cricket.

I know the history of West Indies cricket and I know what it means to the people.

We had thousands of people outside Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at six o’clock in the morning.

We West Indian cricketers are always proud to play for the West Indies and we know we are made up of different islands and different cultures but we have to be able to mesh together, to come together and perform as a team.

In cricket, you should keep your wrist as straight as possible, unlike golf.

Virat Kohli is someone I have great respect for.

I’ve been part of five World Cups and we reached the semis only in 1996.

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

Pretty early, when I started playing golf, I was compared to Garfield Sobers, who played both cricket and golf.

I don’t think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He’s the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.