Quotes About Cricket In India

#1. I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Virat Kohli

#2. Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

Gagan Narang

#3. Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Harsha Bhogle

#4. 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

#5. A boy, Ranga, is tomorrow's world the day after tomorrow.

Ian B.G. Burns

#6. Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works.

Robert Wachter

#7. India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

Vikas Swarup

#8. Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

Preity Zinta

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

Brian Lara

#10. Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.

Rick Riordan

#11. Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Pull on your goddess panties, my dear. It's time to come out swinging.

Courtney Cole

#13. When you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you.

Peter Storey

#14. Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

Mark Jenkins

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

Sachin Tendulkar

#16. Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence."
"Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

Kate Elliott

#17. Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!

Rick Riordan

#18. If I have to, I can do anything.

Helen Reddy

#19. I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.

MacDonald Harris

#20. 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

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

Imran Khan

#22. The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole.

Karin Slaughter

#23. 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

#24. As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight away. We must start on the ground floor.

Sachin Tendulkar

#25. Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

George Gaylord Simpson

#26. If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#27. I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

Allan Border

#28. By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad.

Rahul Dravid

#30. In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

Ian Rush

#31. In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#32. I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Tom Robbins

#33. Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

Gideon Haigh