Top 1200 Playing Cricket Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

I used to play cricket every day till Class X but lost touch with it ever since.

To have healthy competitions among players for places in the team is good for Indian cricket and the game in general.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

MS Dhoni would know what's best for him. He has served Indian cricket very well.

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

I've played my cricket very sincerely and honestly, that's the approach my team takes, and we expect that from Australia as well.

In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to four batsmen has become very crucial.

When you play good competitive cricket and win matches for your team, you always feel happy.

Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Whenever an opportunity comes to play ODI and T20I cricket, I will work hard and make it count.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

I enjoy football, cricket and I have been watching mixed martial arts for the last five years.

If you're playing 55 to 60 snaps, you have opportunities to pace yourself, pick spots. When you're not playing as many and you don't know necessarily when you're going to be in, you do have to sometimes make it happen when you're out there.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

I love cricket. Thankfully, I didn't make a career out of it. Otherwise today I'd have been working in a bank.

It's not always about scoring runs when it comes to Test cricket. There are times and circumstances when you've got to save the match.

In international cricket, the atmosphere changes, and the interest level is higher, but for a cricketer, it is still a game he has to play.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

It is certainly not how I've been brought up and it's not in my blood to play cricket in that safety-first way.

Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.

There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's nice to just let soul rule.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down.

MMA, cricket, or anything, you cannot just coast. Every day, you have to wake up hungry.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

I think Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Mumbai have very loyal fans. That's the beauty of franchise cricket.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

Shadab Khan and Fakhar Zaman have played domestic cricket but PSL gave them an identity.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there's definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

Playing for England in Spain was really hard but racism is still in the game, which it shouldn't be. I think when you're playing the best thing to do is block it out like you do with everything else.

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.

I still watch cricket, though now films and exercise take up most of my time.

It was always a dream to play Test cricket and get a first five-wicket haul over here.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

Without being disrespectful to Leverkusen, playing for Liverpool helps me more because I am playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I have no regrets making this step.

I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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

When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.