| Cricket quotes - Sayings from famous cricketers |
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know? I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for. I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people. I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup. I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test. I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result. I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport. It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket. John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well. Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes. The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose. Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. Village cricket spread fast through the land. We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great. When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today. With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. |