Top 46 Quotes About Cricketer
#1. It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
Steve Waugh
#2. When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.
Matthew Hayden
#3. The reason for a Lahore-based cricketer being treated with a degree of animosity by the Karachi lobby (or vice versa a Karachi cricketer being treated similarly by the Lahore lobby) needs to be set in a wider context of historical regional and provincial tensions. Rivalries
Shaharyar M. Khan
#4. International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.
Harbhajan Singh
#5. 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
#6. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
Usain Bolt
#7. A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
W. G. Grace
#8. No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
Gideon Haigh
#9. Rahul is always been in the shadow of Sachin. If you take his record it's as good as Sachin's but you cannot compare both as they are different kind of players. Rahul is a complete cricketer.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#10. If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
Prince Philip
#11. When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!
Richie Benaud
#12. The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
Simon Barnes
#13. I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.
Suresh Raina
#14. I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
Uday Kotak
#15. Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.
W. G. Grace
#16. 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
#17. It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
Kapil Dev
#18. 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
#19. Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.
Virat Kohli
#20. I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.
Virat Kohli
#21. I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.
Andrew Strauss
#22. The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
Kapil Dev
#23. 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
#24. Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.
Virat Kohli
#25. I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali
#26. 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
#27. I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid
#28. Hobbs and Sutcliffe. More than any other players in those years they raised the status of the professional cricketer.
Stephen Chalke
#29. A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
Margaret Hughes
#30. Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
Virat Kohli
#31. Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Harbhajan Singh
#32. If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?
Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh
#33. 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
#34. As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.
Brett Lee
#35. I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
Kapil Dev
#36. Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have
Rahul Dravid
#38. If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game. As a parent, I would be happier hearing people say, "Sachin is a good human being" than "Sachin is a great cricketer" any day.
Sachin Tendulkar
#39. Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
Harsha Bhogle
#40. I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.
Mark Lawrenson
#41. I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
Rahul Dravid
#42. In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
Harbhajan Singh
#43. When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.
Graeme Smith
#44. If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
Rahul Dravid
#45. You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.
Amit Ray
#46. 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
