Cricketers Quotes

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it. ~ Waqar Younis

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. ~ Rahul Dravid

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket ~ Virender Sehwag

For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one? ~ Tony Lewis

Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself. ~ Steve Waugh

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer. ~ Rahul Dravid

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson. ~ Martina Navratilova

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level. ~ Kapil Dev

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day. ~ Matthew Hayden

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes. ~ Margaret Hughes

Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard. ~ Rahul Dravid

As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual? ~ Margaret Hughes

There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others ~ Andy Flower

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him. ~ Andrew Flintoff

I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests ~ Matthew Hayden

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it. ~ Paul Ormerod

Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he? ~ James Anderson

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders ~ Virat Kohli

I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything. ~ Kumar Sangakkara

Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me. ~ Harbhajan Singh

Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger. ~ Rodney Ulyate

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. ~ Norman Tebbit

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli. ~ Sunil Gavaskar

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket. ~ Kapil Dev

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings. ~ Harsha Bhogle

My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. ~ Suresh Raina

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player. ~ Virender Sehwag

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers. ~ Rahul Dravid

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. ~ Ted Dexter

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

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third. ~ Shane Warne

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. ~ Robert Mugabe

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best. ~ Garfield Sobers

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know ~ Donald Bradman

Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way. ~ Wasim Akram

gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90! ~ P.V. Subramanyam

Be a film star's fan, or cricketer's, but never be a politician's fan. ~ Ravish Kumar

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time. ~ Suresh Raina

Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn't play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally. ~ Muttiah Muralitharan

It's incredible, really, the amount of pain cricketers are prepared to put themselves through. Say you're an opening batsman who gets out for a duck in the first over on day one. What compels you to hang around for the rest of the day, let alone turn up the following Saturday for day two? Yet you do, lest 10 blokes who you don't even like think slightly less of you. You retain a sense of loyalty to the club, to your teammates, even though those same teammates will not hesitate to rate your girlfriend a 'six out of 10' in front of your face. During the time I've spent watching my teammates bat after getting out cheaply, I could have learned a language by now. I could be speaking Mandarin. Instead, all I've got to show for it is a career average of 13.6 and a 10 percent discount at our local pub. ~ Sam Perry

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good. ~ Virat Kohli

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important. ~ Rahul Dravid

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