Cricket Quotes - page 6

Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize. (Gagan Narang)
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. View quote
Gautam Gambhir
The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual. View quote
Gautam Gambhir
I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. View quote
Gautam Gambhir
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. View quote
Hamish Bowles
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. View quote
Hansie Cronje
You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. View quote
Harbhajan Singh
Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket. View quote
Harsha Bhogle
I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team. View quote
Imtiaz Ali
I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup. View quote
Jeremy London
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. (Jeremy London)
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable. View quote
Joseph O'Neill
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer. View quote
Joseph O'Neill
I love England and I love cricket. View quote
Kevin Pietersen
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. View quote
Henry Chadwick
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features. View quote
John Montgomery Ward
Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much. View quote
Max Walker
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect. View quote
Max Walker
Well, all cricket invites attention. View quote
Nita Ambani
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. (Richie Benaud)
Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away. View quote
Richie Benaud
How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf. View quote
Ricky Ponting
I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing. View quote
Ricky Ponting
I love to watch movies and play cricket. View quote
Riteish Deshmukh