Top 561 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Cricketers - Page 3

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

One of the things about the six sixes, which really comes over me every time somebody asks a question or says to me, 'I've just seen them,' or people always ask me about it... It makes me feel that's the only thing I've ever done in the history of cricket.

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

You want to keep getting better every day.

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

You'd be surprised at how much I can drink. I mean, I can really drink.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

Criticise us on our cricket but don't get abusive with us.

A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.

I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

To be very modest about what is happening in my life and my career over the last couple of years, I did not know if I would go on to play Test cricket when we were in the pandemic, in the lockdown.

I want to win the Ashes.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

At the end of the day, however big or whatever I have achieved, if I am not able to enjoy what I really enjoy, then there is no point having this life.

Sacrifice money rather than principle.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth

Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different.

I have so many fond memories of the Tied Test, and I can't wait to come back to Brisbane. One thing that stands out is that both teams stayed at the same hotel. We got to know each other so well. Some of my best cricketing friends were in that Australian team.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don't know what bowlers see while batting.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

I believe in my race, colour. I never felt inferior to anyone. Maybe that's why the folks who made me feel that way, may think Vivian Richards is the most arrogant guy on earth, but no. I bat for human beings, equal rights.

I love sleeping, I can sleep for 15 hours a day.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Yes, you tend to lose patience but selection is not in your hands. All you can do is perform, perform and perform and that's what I enjoy doing.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.

Personally, I take every match seriously and give off my best... My aim is to win and there's no time to relax.

I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world.

Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

The more you win, the brand of women's cricket will go higher.

No regrets, only choices.

All Wishes are not from HEART !!!

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.