Top 108 Bowlers Quotes & Sayings

I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.

I have always liked to attack the bowlers, and batting is all about getting runs.

You don't need to spoon-feed bowlers at the international level.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

What inspiration will other fast bowlers have if they don't have anybody to inspire them to become fast bowlers.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

Pretty much all bowlers are nice dudes.

They come with a lot of strategies in international cricket. You face bowlers with a lot more pace.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

All bowlers depend on movement, and I am no exception.

Having two bowlers who can exceed 90 mph is a mouth-watering prospect - and something batsmen will not relish one bit.

It really gave me a lot of confidence to know that I could score runs against some really good bowlers.

Befriending Pro Bowlers and future Hall of Famers is pretty cool, but I'm just enjoying the ride, looking at every day in the NFL as a memorable moment.

At times, when batsmen are not under pressure, it becomes easy to face the bowlers.

Wherever we play, the batsmen have bigger responsibility in ODI and T20 formats to set up big targets and give that cushion to bowlers.

When you go out to play in different conditions against different bowlers, it is always challenging.

I am an attacking batsman, but I've learned a lot about patience. There are clever bowlers who can pick your weak points, so I have to be a bit patient, play out a spell or two.

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

I can get runs much faster if I stay there in the middle to give bowlers more time and cushion.

If I get runs in an entertaining fashion, then great. I like to get on top of bowlers and be aggressive. I don't want to be dominated by them. Hopefully people enjoy the way I play.

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

There will be bowlers who will be having a good day, so it is important to give them their due. At the same time, you have put pressure on other bowlers who are not having an entirely good outing.

Bowlers have to adapt all the time.

I have been saying for a long time that bowlers come in packs. When you have a senior bowler in the pack, he can guide the young bowlers in pressure situations by talking with them.

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

As bowlers, we don't worry about the wickets, whether they are flat or not.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

England have good fast bowlers who can exploit their home conditions.

White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too.

Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.

It's always better for the bowlers to stick to a line and length, and that helps you get wickets.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

If the batsmen can give the bowlers a day and half of rest then that is going to work in the team's favour.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.

If batsmen put up a good total on the board, then it gives the bowlers more confidence to bowl well.

With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.

It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

In bowlers' meetings we talk a lot about patience here in India. You need that more than anywhere in the world. Outfields are fast, pitches are slow, the ball gets soft. Bowlers are more crucial than batters.

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world.

As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

The biggest difference at the Ranji Trophy level is that of the pace you face. You don't get as many quick bowlers at the Under-19 level.

We all know England conditions help fast bowlers.

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

When facing bowlers or throw downs, it is not possible to feed the ball in one place at all times; therefore, tennis ball practice comes in handy.

A lot of the emphasis on international bowlers is on their pace and Australia coach Darren Lehmann is a big fan of bowlers who can bowl 90mph-plus.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

I don't need to be going out reverse-sweeping for six and four straightaway. Singles can be just as important as boundaries, rotating the strike and not letting the bowlers settle.