Cricket Quotes

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. (G. M. Trevelyan)
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. View quote
George Mikes
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. View quote
Aravind Adiga
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. View quote
Ian Botham
The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. View quote
André Maurois
In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat. View quote
Charlie Brooker
After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry. (Bill Bryson)
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. View quote
Harold Pinter
I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth. View quote
Harold Pinter
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. View quote
Murray Walker
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points. View quote
J. B. Priestley
There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. View quote
C. L. R. James
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad. View quote
MS Dhoni
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. View quote
Imran Khan
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. View quote
Andy Pick
Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways. (Andy Pick)
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. View quote
Damian Lewis
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. View quote
Desmond Llewelyn
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first. View quote
Gagan Narang
I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people. View quote
Hansie Cronje