Cricket Quotes – Set 1 – 2017

#1

In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket].

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#2

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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#3

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed.

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#4

I do love cricket – it’s so very English.

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#5

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

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#6

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

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#7

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

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#8

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

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#9

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

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#10

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

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#11

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

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#12

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they’re both very good units.

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#13

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

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#14

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

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#15

Cricket was my reason for living.

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#16

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

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#17

Cricket the world over, I don’t think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

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#18

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don’t understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn’t understand what they were talking about.

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#19

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

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#20

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

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#21

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

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#22

We are at loggerheads with Australia and the International Cricket Council is aware of it.

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#23

We don’t get enough chance to play international cricket.

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#24

He will be considered for a return to international cricket later in the summer.

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#25

It’s important for world cricket that we don’t fall too far behind the top nations.

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#26

The thing I can’t believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

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#27

We spoke about his love for cricket and what cricket does to influence the world.

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#28

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

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#29

Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.

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#30

If the Australians can’t respect good cricket they don’t deserve to see the best in action.

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#31

Sends a message that cricket is alive and well in the Caribbean.

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#32

The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.

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#33

You must be joking. We never talk cricket when we get together.

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#34

We’re simply interested in playing good cricket.

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#35

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

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#36

We’ve got a lot of cricket coming up this year, personally I’m looking forward to it.

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#37

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

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#38

You’re 30, you know cricket isn’t the be-all and end-all. You’re probably educated and know there is life away from cricket.

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#39

Gillespie … was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form.

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#40

He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well.

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#41

Cricket has changed for the better … it’s because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

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#42

He has made a great contribution to Indian cricket.

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#43

It’s much bigger than a cricket story.

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#44

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

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#45

He has been playing club cricket at home and he has been batting and bowling, so he is fine.

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#46

We don?t get enough chance to play international cricket.

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#47

I’m at a loss for words. That is my best moment in cricket by far.

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#48

Sri Lanka is probably playing the better cricket at this point than South Africa.

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#49

They don’t seem to have the hunger normally associated with Australian cricket sides.

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#50

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.