Top 1200 Playing Cricket Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

No disrespect to county cricket but when you're playing for England it is the ultimate, it is what has always driven me to push myself above and beyond.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

When I began my life journey, we'd survive on Rs 500 a month as a family. As time passed and I started playing for the country, this Rs 500 multiplied manifold, but it was not the money that mattered: it was the fact that I was fulfilling my ambition of playing cricket on the highest platform, representing my country.

There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.

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

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

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

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

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

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

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

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

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

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.

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

I love playing cricket. I wake up every morning and I can't see myself doing anything else.

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.

I have loved cricket my whole life, from playing in the garden as a child, and will never underestimate how special it is to pull on an England shirt.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

When you were playing cricket non-stop without a break, relentlessly, then these breaks really help you.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

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

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

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

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

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

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.

I was a flamboyant player when I started playing First Class cricket. I used to just back my instincts and go with the flow.

Cricket is my life and it has been since the age of five so the first opportunity I get, I'll be back playing for West Indies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As a kid, I was like anybody else, playing cricket, enjoying it. The only difference is, right from when I can remember, I always used to love bowling.

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

Playing cricket in England is what I am looking forward to, and I would love to bowl at Lord's again.

I want to be associated with a show related to cricket as I'm proud of India playing the sport at an international level.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

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 hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

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 grew up playing against friends and cousins in the park and it was some of the most competitive cricket I have played.

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

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

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

There are cricket-loving people here, much like in Pakistan. Overall, I've enjoyed a lot playing in India in my cricketing career.

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

I'm looking forward to the new challenge that playing T20 cricket in England will bring.

At the start, when I started playing first-class cricket, I was a flamboyant player and I never used to take responsibility.

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

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