Top 1200 Cricket Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I'd like to give more stability to the players.

Before I had my son, I used to travel a lot, almost 40-50 days at a time for cricket tournaments.

We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

You cannot win every match.

It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.

Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.

For my second match it's pretty good.

I try to play one match at a time.

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.

It does not matter if I'm Man of the Match.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

I mean, who doesn't love one-on-one match-ups?

I'm just taking one match at a time.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

In my heart, international cricket is the way forward. That's where you want to play; that's where the pressure really lies. That's where you make your name.

I should be playing every match.

It is a matter of pride, and a lot of pressure to play the role of a legend like Sunil Gavaskar. He is India's first cricket superstar.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Love and happiness is a great match.

I was the ball boy during the Mumbai Test of the home series against South Africa in 2000. I was playing Under-14 cricket.

It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

It sounds sycophantic, but I don't think I have met anyone in cricket who gives so much to a team as Marcus Trescothick does to England.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

To me, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman to have ever played one-day cricket. I have no doubts after seeing what he has achieved for India.

Commitment is the match that lights the fire.

It's important to get match rhythm.

Why'd you leave the match, huh?

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

I like people to match my energy.

As chief selector, I did my best to pick new talent and give them proper opportunities, as they are the future of Pakistan cricket.

I couldn't imagine myself retiring from a match.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.

To me, every match is important.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

Being able to work with specialist coaches in Twenty20 cricket, I think my bowling has gone up another level.

No one in life can ever match fiction

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match like creed. Trump is like "Mad Max: Fury Road." We have never seen anything like this in politics. The kind of race he's going to run. I mean, look, he is winning the nomination. He doesn't prepare for debates. He doesn't run advertising. He gets millions of dollars spent against him, it has no effect, he's not running as sophisticated data driven campaign yet he is winning. As each and every day, you just don't know what you're going to get with this guy.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

We always prepare for winning the match.

Tendulkar is my idol in cricket, and one thing I try to pick up from him is how he carries himself in a humble manner.

A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

The problem with West Indies cricket is that the talent is there but there is no cohesion. Everybody's pulling in different directions; the players, the selectors, the management.

I want my outfit to match my mood.