Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Lara - Page 2

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

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

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

I am always committed to West Indies cricket.

I have a lot of people I respect and a lot of people I have time for - reciprocity isn't necessary.

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.

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

When you've got an opportunity to try and finish a game on a given day, you try and do that.

Yes, golf is a weird game. I was capable of dealing with moving and bouncing cricket balls, but this little silly ball, sitting on the ground, gave me quite a headache early on for few years, but taught me how to be disciplined in controlling the ball.

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

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.

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.

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.

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

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

Even I lost a series of Test matches as skipper.

I don't play politics.

It's an honour to captain the West Indies.

What you have to understand is that the first day I picked up a bat I made an impression on my older sister Agnes and my dad. It was about seeing people satisfied by what you're doing. I was creating a fan base.

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

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

People want sport that they can go on an afternoon and watch with their kids.

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

I first took up golf in 1994, and used to play intermittently. I couldn't devote as much time to it as I would've liked.

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

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

The World Cup is not a normal one-day series.

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

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.

Cricket is my life and it has been since the age of five so the first opportunity I get, I'll be back playing for West Indies.

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.

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

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

Having a decent place to live is fundamental for families.

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

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

I would like to be remembered as someone who came out there and tried to entertain.

I look at Sachin and I see a great player, the kind of person that you would like to follow, but I have my reputation and am happy with the way my career has gone.

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

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar.

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.

India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.