Cricket Quotes
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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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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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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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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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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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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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
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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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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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Cricket is my first love.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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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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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
