Cricket Quotes
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I always breathe cricket.
Kapil Dev
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I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.
Waqar Younis
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From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
Richie Benaud
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Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.
Sunil Gavaskar
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I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
Ian Healy
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Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes
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Harder he works, the luckier he gets.
Ian Chappell
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A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf.
Harold Larwood
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
Hilary Beckles
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Potentially the single biggest private sector investment in cricket.
Clive Lloyd
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He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Richie Benaud
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I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.
Arjuna Ranatunga
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Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.
Richie Benaud
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
William Butler Yeats
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You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker
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Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
Richie Benaud
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How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.
Ricky Ponting
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Potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.
Clive Lloyd
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Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.
Ian Chappell
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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.
Virender Sehwag
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The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.
Andrew Symonds
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I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.
Wasim Akram
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First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
Barry Richards