Warne Quotes

#1. He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

Richie Benaud

#2. I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

Brian Lara

#3. It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

Andrew Flintoff

#4. If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.

Monty Panesar

#5. Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Carolyn See

#6. Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

Ian Healy

#7. What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

Carolyn See

#8. The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up ... And maybe I don't.

Shane Warne

#9. I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

Shane Warne

#10. You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

Shane Warne

#11. The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

Shane Warne

#12. Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.

Shane Warne

#13. Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

Shane Warne

#14. I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

Shane Warne

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

Shane Warne

#16. I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

Shane Warne

#17. I'm fitter than I've ever been, I'm actually very, very healthy and I'm happy.

Shane Warne

#18. The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

Shane Warne

#19. All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Shane Warne

#20. I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them ... on face value.

Shane Warne

#21. Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to get bowling partnerships, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Shane Warne

#22. As Barry Commoner, US biologist and 1980 presidential candidate, formulated it in his Four Laws of Ecology:
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Kennedy Warne

#23. Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

Shane Warne

#24. I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

Shane Warne

#25. In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.

Shane Warne

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

Shane Warne

#27. Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Shane Warne

#28. We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

Shane Warne

#29. 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

#30. I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with ... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

Shane Warne

#31. We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

Shane Warne

#32. To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Shane Warne

#33. I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast ... but it's in moderation now.

Shane Warne

#34. With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

Shane Warne

#35. I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

Shane Warne

#36. 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

#37. I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

Shane Warne

#38. The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

Shane Warne

#39. I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.

Shane Warne

#40. My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

Shane Warne

#41. Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

Shane Warne

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

Shane Warne

#43. People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.

Shane Warne

#44. I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.

Shane Warne

#45. I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

Shane Warne

#46. If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.

Shane Warne

#47. I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens ... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Shane Warne

#48. It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

Shane Warne

#49. I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.

Kate Warne

#50. The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.

Kate Warne

#51. The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

Shane Warne

#52. This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

Kate Warne

#53. With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

Shane Warne

#54. You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer

Shane Warne

#55. I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

Shane Warne

#56. Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

Shane Warne

#57. When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Shane Warne

#58. People are worried where additional supply will come from.

Kate Warne

#59. There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.

Shane Warne