Bowlers Quotes - Page 2

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'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Matthew Morrison

Couple, Kids, League

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The reason why Indian bowling has done exceptionally well in this World Cup is MS Dhoni. When we wrote them off, he kept supporting them. When they were struggling, only he was standing by his bowlers.

V. V. S. Laxman

Struggle, Ms Dhoni, Done

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I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Andrew Lang

Cat, Umpires, Bats

'Brahma'.

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There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Virat Kohli

Thinking, Play, Two

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Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.

Glenn McGrath

Thinking, Class, Lasts

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England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

Jeff Thomson

Giving, England

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He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.

Derek Landy

Cowboy, Pie, Style

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Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

Geoffrey Boycott

Buffets, Helping, Help Yourself

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I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Quaid

Teenager, Avid, Average

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They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

Fred Trueman

Finest, Volume, Autobiography

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My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.

Brian Blessed

Dad, Team, Believe

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

Brian Lara

Thinking, Forget, Leather

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I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.

W. G. Grace

Believe, Hands, Events

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As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

R. H. Bruce Lockhart

Two, Feet, Bed

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Actually I started out as a fast bowler but people told me that I was chucking the ball, so i changed to spin.

Shahid Afridi

People, Balls, Changed

Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com

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My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

Brian Blessed

Team, Father, Men

"My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

David Lloyd

Fire, Tests, Blokes

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And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

J. K. Rowling

Uncles, Eye, Men

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I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

Gabby Douglas

Months, Very Good

"Gabby Douglas Admits She's Klutzy". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 5, 2016.

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He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

Greg Chappell

Play, Ease, World

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The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.

Mushfiqur Rahim

School, Boys, Bats

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The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Josephine Tey

Angel, Men, Thinking

Josephine Tey (2012). “The Franchise Affair”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me.

Shoaib Akhtar

Natural, Ends, Diamond

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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Ian Mckellen

Brother, Doors, Feet

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