Top 80 Bowler Quotes

Each bowler has his own pride when bowling in the nets but it’s vital that you get ball on bat and then you are ready to use the opportunity when you are out in the middle.

I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.

Many England girls have grown up playing men’s cricket and trained in county men’s academies, so they’ve faced 70-80 mph bowling. So when it comes to the women’s game you have a 75mph bowler who’s not as tall and not getting as much bounce, you feel more assured.

When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language is also different, and I am not aggressive by nature; thus, my focus was always on my skills.

The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I’ve said before, is something I’m working on.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

I feel England is the most difficult place for a bowler.

I have always been an attacking bowler, but I am trying my best to learn every day.

I am not a big supporter of sledging or insults that are hurled at you. But I don’t mind if a bowler glares or stares at the batsmen. During my career, I have faced these situations numerous times.

As a bowler, you want to go and bowl in helpful conditions in South Africa, England, and Australia. But it is also important to bowl in the right areas, and they differ from bowler to bowler, depending on conditions and the opposition.

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don’t have to face him.

I was an all-rounder but more of a batsman, maybe second-choice bowler.

I imagine that I’m less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world.

I am the sort of a bowler who keeps things simple.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Mike Webster’s death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games – 220 of them – than any other player in Steelers history.

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.

As a fast bowler, if you are out of the game for five months, then that can be catastrophic, but to be out of the game for five years was very tough, and to make a comeback after such a lengthy period with no cricket behind me was a difficult ask.

I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.

When people say ‘Charlie Chaplin’ I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk – I don’t think of an old man who was my grandfather.

I don’t think any bowler can trouble me much.

I don’t want to lose any of that passion for the game; as a bowler I need to have that real desire to get the batsman out and be in their face and be aggressive.

It’s always frustrated me when I’ve seen other players able to smack balls over the bowler’s head and stuff like that. I can’t, though. When I’ve tried I’ve let myself down.

If there is nothing happening on the wicket, the bowler always thinks that he should not go for a boundary.

I have bowled with another leg-spinner in county cricket – Shahid Afridi. But he is a totally different bowler than Mishra. I have a lot of respect for Mishra.

As an athlete there are times in your career where, during a game, any decision you make seems to be the right one. The bowler bowls where you want, you don’t have to think and you are so ‘in the zone’ that you are not aware of anything else around you.

I have been saying for a long time that bowlers come in packs. When you have a senior bowler in the pack, he can guide the young bowlers in pressure situations by talking with them.

If you ask me, a batsman has very few opportunities as compared to a bowler. A bowler knows, if he gets hit for a six or a boundary, he has another delivery left to get back and take a wicket. For a batsman, one loose shot, and you are out. A bowler will always have 24 opportunities.

As a bowler, I was not scared of any batsman. They are not supposed to scare you; you have to scare them.

I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.

It’s going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him – he’ll be a great batsman or bowler.

To play 100 Tests is a lot of miles in the legs and just thinking about that many as a fast bowler hurts my back!

I was scared of facing only one bowler – that was Muttiah Muralitharan.

There are different roles you must play over 80 overs and that means you need to be versatile as a bowler.

When a bowler comes on you want to put him under pressure. He might not allow you to do that but find a way.

I mean everyone’s always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I’ve taken a lot of wickets but I’ve got a pretty decent economy rate.

In the IPL, I learnt from Dale Steyn. Our bowling styles are quite different, but he is a great bowler, and you can always pick something from the way he bowls. He has given me a lot of tips during matches, which I have tried in my bowling.

There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.

You have to respect the bowler, and every batsmen have their way of tackling the spinners.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

Generally I don’t say too much on the field. However, I am a fast bowler and with that comes the responsibility of saying a word or two and getting in a guy’s face.

You have to assume as a bowler that the batsman is going to hit every ball that he will face. That’s where as a bowler you have to fancy your chances. If he is going to hit you, you can dismiss him. That is the confidence I give to my bowlers.

New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I know I’m a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.

When you play for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, you face the same bowler next year. But when you play in IPL, you face bowlers of different calibre.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

There is nothing worse for a bowler than knowing you cannot give your all. If you try to, you can mess yourself up for the future, so you are torn between that and protecting your body. You simply cannot do both.

It is impossible to run in the whole day bowling at 90mph. If you can show me someone who does it then fair play. But I’ve not seen any bowler who bowls 90mph do it for a whole day.

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 get drafted, you perform like a Pro Bowler, then they pay you. But there’s certain teams in this league, that’s not what they’re trying to do.

I didn’t wear a helmet because I wanted to show that the bowler wasn’t intimidating me, and also that’s just the way I liked to bat.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

It pumps me up – the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It’s a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on.

From a spinner’s perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn’t say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

As a bowler, there are times when you do not get wickets, and you don’t have the numbers to show against your name. But never has the thought crossed my mind that I am not a confident bowler and the wickets are not coming my way.

Unless you are a good bowler, you won’t be in the India A side.

At one stage, I just wanted to play one Test for India. People used to say I was just a T20 bowler, a limited-overs bowler. All these tag lines were doing the rounds but I did want to make a difference.