There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
I've never got to the bottom of streaking
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
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.
The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before
Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.
I leave with sadness, but also with pride.
The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.
Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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