Top 39 Test Cricket Quotes
#1. As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.
Cyrus Broacha
#2. I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
Suresh Raina
#3. When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.
Donald Bradman
#4. Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
Kapil Dev
#5. Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.
Donald Bradman
#6. I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.
Kumar Sangakkara
#7. A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.
Justin Langer
#8. Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
Kapil Dev
#9. It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir
#10. You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
Ian Botham
#11. My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.
Suresh Raina
#12. Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.
Suresh Raina
#13. I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
Kevin Pietersen
#14. 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
#15. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
Michael Hussey
#16. There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
Rahul Dravid
#17. There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.
Kevin Pietersen
#18. Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
#20. I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.
Joe Bradley
#21. Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.
Sunil Gavaskar
#22. Even if my grandchildren don't remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.
Rahul Dravid
#23. Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career.
BBC
#24. It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.
Michael Jordan
#26. Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
Bill Mollison
#27. I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
Philip Pullman
#28. I just need to look at you."
"Then keep looking, kiddo," he said. My heart may have melted like a pat of butter on hot bread. "Because I'm looking at you. I don't think I could ever stop.
Karina Halle
#29. If a cigarette butt in the bottom of a beer bottle had a voice it would be the voice of Phil Tufnell.
Telford Vice
#30. 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
#31. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
Thierry Henry
#32. I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches.
Shilpa Shetty
#33. When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.
Yogi Bhajan
#34. 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
#35. Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
Romesh Gunesekera
#36. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
Ian Botham
#37. 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
#39. I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.
Virat Kohli
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