Brian Lara Quotes
We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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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.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
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Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
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Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
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I always breathe cricket.
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I've been really impressed with the way he has come back from the Under 21 World Cup and taken his form into club rugby.
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Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
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Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and get across what he wanted to do.
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Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.
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With this offer from the Far East I most likely would have had to renounce the World Cup. This was too high a price to pay.
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I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
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They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!
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Our aim is to be at the top at the World Cup and such setbacks may be even good in the long run, we can learn from them
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.
