Cricket Quotes

"When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war."
-Gen Maxwell D. Taylor

"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."
-John Fowles

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
-George Bernard Shaw

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

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

"We're simply interested in playing good cricket."
-Ravikant Shukla

"Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life."
-John Arlott

"Bangladesh bowled well -- added with some bad cricket from us."
-Tatenda Taibu

"It was good to see the boys playing good cricket and it was really good for the confidence of the boys before we play Australia."
-Sanath Jayasuriya

"He will be considered for a return to international cricket later in the summer."
-John Bracewell

"I'm at a loss for words. That is my best moment in cricket by far."
-Mark Boucher

"He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well."
-Kiran More

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

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

"Sri Lanka is probably playing the better cricket at this point than South Africa."
-Michael Hussey

"Gillespie ... was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form."
-Geoff Lawson

"Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now."
-Richie Benaud

"The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket."
-Andrew Symonds

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

"There is no place in Australian cricket for racism, whether it be on or off the field."
-Peter Young

"We will talk with the officials of Pakistan's government and the cricket board."
-Yashovardhan Azad

"We don?t get enough chance to play international cricket."
-Steve Tikolo

"The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket."
-Ian Botham

"We spoke about his love for cricket and what cricket does to influence the world."
-Brian Lara

"Sends a message that cricket is alive and well in the Caribbean."
-Baldwin Spencer

"You must be joking. We never talk cricket when we get together."
-Vinod Kambli

"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."
-Colin Miller

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