Cricket Quotes

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

Great, Baseball, Advantage

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

Game, Pressure, Match

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Love, Hate, Winning

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Energy

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
Imran Khan

Trust, Money, Spiritual

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
Sachin Tendulkar

Time, Long, Playing

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.
Harold Pinter

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.
Jim Jarmusch

Cool, Beautiful, Friends

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Game, Team, Whether

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
Sachin Tendulkar

Important, Game, Cannot

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Body, Taught

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams

Baseball, Basically

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
Sachin Tendulkar

Person, Blame, Wrong

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
Hugh Jackman

Great, Dad, Sports

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
Sachin Tendulkar

Football, Playing, Empty

I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Sarah Bernhardt

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

Playing, Anyone, Bribe

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar

Give, Serious, Whatever

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

Different, Kerry

Cricket was my reason for living.
Harold Larwood

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker

Tension, Cut, Stump

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul Hogan

Game, After, Beginning

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Sachin Tendulkar

Heart, Before, After

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis

Good, True, Two

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
Damian Lewis

Through, Before, Used

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes

Life, Game, English

But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar

Game, Eventually

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Great, Country, Wanted

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.
Sachin Tendulkar

Life, Family, Time

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar

Life, Politics, Giving

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