Bowler Quotes

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. (Rahul Dravid)

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Josephine Tey

I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Ian McKellen

A bowler can make or break a chap.

John Newton

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

Sachin Tendulkar

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

Sachin Tendulkar

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

John Mortimer

If 15 runs are needed of the last over, pressure is on the bowler, not on MS Dhoni.

MS Dhoni

He was a good sportsman too. He was an excellent fast bowler and a good fielder. He was also a very good kabaddi player.

Rajinikanth

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

Andy Lau

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives. (Brian Blessed)

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Chris Hardwick

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Matthew Morrison

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Perry Christie

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

Richie Benaud

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Warren Moon

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Quaid

He is possibly the only bowler to have played in a Test series as an automatic choice without taking a wicket.

Fred Trueman

He soon made his name as a distinctly awkward fast left-arm bowler whose pounding run to the wicket was filled with menace.

David Frith

...that if you want to do something, achieve something, you can't be thinking all the time of what you don't have... I don't have an opening batsman, I don't have a fast bowler, I don't have an all-rounder... You think like this and you are telling yourself you can't win. You have to see what you have, and then plan how to use it the best way you can, that is how to win games. Not this business of 'we don't have an all-rounder so we are not a balanced team!

Kapil Dev

This has been a big incident, hasn't in. In reality, James Anderson was a B-grade bowler who got his arse-whipped by Australia that many times it's not even funny. Frankly I don't care what he has to say but at least he has improved his bowling, thank goodness. (Matthew Hayden)

No bowler in history won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been a harder trier either. Like the great tall wrist spinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol BS Chandrasekhar, Kumble traded the leg spinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear, as the ball hacked through the air rather than hanging in it and came off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. The method provided him stunning success, particularly on Indian soil, where his deliveries burst like packets of water upon the feeblest hint of a crack, and more than one modern-day batsman remarked that there was no more difficult challenge in cricket than handling Kumble on a wearing surface.

Anil Kumble