Quotes About Wickets

#1. My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs ... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.

Shane Warne

#2. Speed can't always get you wickets.

Kapil Dev

#3. Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.

Shane Warne

#4. Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

Harbhajan Singh

#5. It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because ... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes.

Sachin Tendulkar

#6. The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

Shane Warne

#7. I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

Muttiah Muralitharan

#8. Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn't play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.

Muttiah Muralitharan

#9. I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

Shane Warne

#10. 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

#11. In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Harold Larwood

#12. Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#13. The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

George Washington

#14. However, since they were completely ignorant of the laws of the place, they were caught in a whirlpool. Condemned to turn round and round in slow circles, they could still bombard the coast, but all their shells came back at them like boomerangs. It was a ludicrous fate.

Rene Daumal

#15. I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

Trey Parker

#16. I have no tolerance for maudlin affection, and less for women who want to fix me."
"Fix you?" Miranda said. "Why would anyone want to fix you? You're not broken.

Courtney Milan

#17. Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

#18. Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Vaclav Havel

#19. Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

Frederick Lenz

#20. For every principle there is a value

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Give me a number between one and ten."
"Two."
"Forget that, then. Between five and ten."
"Seven."
"That's how many times you're coming before sunrise ...

C.D. Reiss

#22. He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.'
I lost my breath.
It was crude, it was unexpected, and it set me on fucking fire.

Leah Raeder