Top 1200 Cricket Quotes & Sayings

I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father's elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in me, so he pushed me, and then another uncle - father of Kamran, Umar, and Adnan Akmal - advised my father to work hard on me, as he thought that I will make it big in cricket.

My dad doesn't know that much about cricket, but he has watched so many years of cricket.

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.

One-day cricket must be taken with equal importance to Test cricket.

Some really good players are coming out of county cricket. Better preparation, and looking after yourself physically are things that counties should still have to strive for. Also, the volume of county cricket is still far too high. I'd definitely like less county cricket.

I've been to a lot of places to play cricket, but cricket and training get in the way! In India, all you see is the hotel and the cricket ground.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

Switching from acting to cricket isn't difficult, because I have represented Delhi in the under-19 category. Plus cricket is in my blood.

Since my re-entry into cricket as the president of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, I have given my 100 percent.

My biggest concern is that Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket are competing too much. They should be complementing each other and the more they clash the more damaging it will be for cricket.

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

Ultimately, DDCA is there to promote Delhi cricket. They are not there to promote themselves or set agendas. The primary job of DDCA is to look after cricket, see where Delhi cricket is going at all levels.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

Through county cricket all the way up to international cricket, the individual needs to be responsible for his behaviour.

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

The more 'A' side cricket that can be played, it will keep the fringe of international cricket interested.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

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Cricket has a stigma of old men in white clothes playing cricket but readdressing that image to people who aren't necessarily cricket lovers may go some way to making it cooler.

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.

I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) is doing an unbelievable job in trying to resurrect international cricket. I just hope the World XI tour goes ahead and that will almost be the curtain raiser to, hopefully, get some international cricket back.

I believe cricket is big part of this country's culture, like all sports but cricket is the most dominant in our country. It is in our blood and even if you don't sit and watch it, the sound of cricket represents summer.

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

I just want to keep playing good cricket and winning games of cricket.

I would call myself a cricket nuffie. I love watching cricket. But I've found other things in my life.

Test cricket is a different format, you have to adjust to five-day cricket.

I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.

Malinga has been a legend for Sri Lankan cricket, and he has done great in international cricket in all formats.

I am an ardent cricket fan, and I have seen the iconic Sharjah Cricket Stadium matches on TV.

It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.

I have made runs in domestic cricket, in First-Class cricket.

That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

Cricket's in the blood - my dad loves it and my brother Simon played for Middlesex before becoming a radio and TV cricket commentator.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.

All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there.

The difference between first-class cricket and international cricket isn't skill, it's attitude and the way you go about things.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.

My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.

In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really different life outside of cricket; it's not just cricket, cricket, cricket for 12 months of the year.

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 thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

Once cricket is seen as a possible profession, a youngster's life can be so altered that cricket becomes second nature to him.