Playing Cricket Quotes

#1. To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Mary Russell Mitford

#2. It's hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it's all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

Sachin Tendulkar

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

Sachin Tendulkar

#4. I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

Satya Nadella

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

Imran Khan

#6. My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

Karisma Kapoor

#7. I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

Usain Bolt

#8. I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

Harbhajan Singh

#9. I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.

Steffan Rhodri

#10. I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

Keith Miller

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

G. M. Trevelyan

#12. What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Suresh Raina

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

Sachin Tendulkar

#14. It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

John Cowper Powys

#15. 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

#16. I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

Sunil Gavaskar

#17. 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

#18. If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

Ian Botham

#19. The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

Gautam Gambhir

#20. You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

Harbhajan Singh

#21. I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

Ricky Ponting

#22. I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Virat Kohli

#23. The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#24. India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

Brian Lara

#25. Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

G.H. Hardy

#26. England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.

Michael Clarke

#27. 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.

Shane Warne

#28. I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

Kapil Dev

#29. You don't need to play every ball on back foot. Some balls in life deserve to be played on front foot. Every ball needs good judgement to extend the limit.

Amit Ray

#30. Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Harbhajan Singh

#31. I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery

Jonathan Trott

#32. You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Amit Ray

#33. I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

Kapil Dev

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

Matthew Hayden

#35. Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Tommy Docherty

#36. He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to the calibre of the attack, the state of the pitch or even the situation of the match.

David Mutton

#37. He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It's a gentleman's game. Don't you ever forget that.

Ken Doyle

#38. I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the only way out. So I will keep playing.

Sourav Ganguly

#39. What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

Jeremy London

#40. 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.

Ian Botham

#41. 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

#42. I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

Suresh Raina

#43. When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

Yuvraj Singh

#44. Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

Wasim Akram

#45. 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

#46. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

Bill Vaughan

#47. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

Tessa Jowell