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 do love cricket - it's so very English.
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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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I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.
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Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.
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My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.
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My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.
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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.
