Bowlers Quotes

• I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

  Brett Lee

  Hands, Games, Boss

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• To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

  Fred Trueman

  Heart, Needs, Bigs

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• A bowler can make or break a chap.

  John Newton

  Make Or Break, Break, Chaps

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• The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Balls, Legs

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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• In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Inspirational Sports, Facts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Politics, Vote

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• 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

  Fall, Opportunity, Years

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• In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

  Ian Peebles

  Games, Cricket, Accord

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• Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness.

  Shahid Afridi

  Jobs, Hard Work, Bowling

  Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com

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• I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

  Perry Christie

  Pace, Illusion, Mediums

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• Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

  John Arlott

  Lonely, Team, Games

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• Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

  Andy Lau

  Golf, Tennis, Want

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• While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Mean, People

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• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  Rahul Dravid

  Hands, Games, Skills

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• Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Player, Ms Dhoni

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• To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

  John Mortimer

  Hate, England, Hats

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• 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

  Struggle, Balls, Pitching

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

  Shane Warne

  Careers, Australia, Suits

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• Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Years, Has Beens

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• Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, World

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• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Very Good, New Zealand

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• I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Reality, Media

  "Technology's gutterball - new gear makes bowling too easy" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Cancer, Book

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• I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world.

  Brett Lee

  Roles, Pace, World

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