Cricket Quotes

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

~ Amit Ray

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

~ C.l.r. James

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

~ Amit Kalantri

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

~ Amit Kalantri

Before you start your full day of watching Equestrian Square Dancing, Soccer Balling, Hoop Dreaming, Cricket Batting, Rugby Punching, Volleyball Chopping, Skateboard Falling, Martial Arts Bowing, Bicycle Peddlers, and College Football Hecklers, maybe we have time to learn somethingScientifically.

~ James Hauenstein

Thank you for helping my sister,” he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.

~ Archie Henderson

Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.

~ Amit Ray

The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.

~ Graham Gooch

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

~ David Peace

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

~ Kamila Shamsie

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

~ Amit Ray

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

~ Andrew Strauss

A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cricket ground!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself still as desperate to read the Sussex score in the stop-press as ever I was; but I no longer worship heroes, beings for whom the ordinary scales of human values are inadequate. One learns that as one grows up, so do the gods grow down. It is in many ways a pity: for one had thought that heroes had no problems of their own. Now one knows different!

~ Alan Ross

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

~ Ricky Ponting

Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent.

~ Amit Kalantri

In cricket- be fit, be alert and be Sachin.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin is a genius in the world of cricket leaving behind all those who are only talented and intelligent.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin plays not only to be remembered but also to be repeated.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin's pedal sweep confirmed that physical conditions and age cannot stop you from hitting boundaries.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sachin's straight drive is like fired bullet from most efficient gun.

~ Amit Kalantri

Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language.

~ Amit Kalantri

I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.

~ Amit Kalantri

Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin's recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most lucky.

~ Amit Kalantri

Cricket must be proud, I played by Sachin Tendulkar.

~ Amit Kalantri

Two examples of true love are love between mother and child and love between Sachin and cricket.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.

~ R.c. Robertson-Glasgow

He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. “Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

~ Ken Doyle

Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he's in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.

~ Jarrod Kimber

[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

~ Gideon Haigh

One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the flow-through holes; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games.

~ Gideon Haigh

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

~ Patrick Ferriday

You know how when you step on court your coach is like go go go!? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it. Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.

~ Fisher Amelie

I thought back to all the times I’d slept with a girl and not thought twice about it and my gut ached. If a girl doesn’t safeguard herself, who will? I’d always had the mentality that men will change when women change but I never thought about how safeguarding the girls around me was just as much my responsibility as it was theirs.

~ Fisher Amelie

I followed suit, a little bit nervous, and very unaware of what I was supposed to do. I had that same sensation you get when you were new to a school and had no idea who anyone was in your lunch period. You’d take your lunch tray and sort of stand around for a moment looking for a good spot to take a seat but the entire time you’re searching, all you can feel is everyone’s eyes on you. That’s a shitty feeling.

~ Fisher Amelie