Cricket Quotes - Page 10

• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

  Virender Sehwag

  Levels, International

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• If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

  Dennis Lillee

  Balls, Helmet, Bowls

  "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

  Ian Botham

  Player, Decision, Village

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• Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

  Nasser Hussain

  Winning, Australia, Forgotten

  Source: uk.askmen.com

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• A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Jobs, Perfect, Missing

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• Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Iraq, Saws, Conflict

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• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  Harbhajan Singh

  Numbers, Age, Levels

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• I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Thinking, Years, Achievement

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• 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

  Dhoni, Decision, Tests

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• I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

  Rahul Dravid

  Play, Giving, Wish

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• 2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

  Alan Parry

  Football, Score, Commentators

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• All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

  Matthew Hayden

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

  Simon Schama

  Love You, First Love, Magic

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• The International Cricket Calender shouldn't be so packed with action that it drives spectators away. Also there should be enough space between cricket events to help players recharge their batteries - not just physically but mentally too.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Player, Space, Events

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• Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Talking, Years, Anticipation

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• I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket.

  Greg Chappell

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

  Greg Chappell

  Winning, Player, England

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• I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

  Shahid Afridi

  Shining, Bats, Balls

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• If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.

  Shahid Afridi

  Army, Play, International

  Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com

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• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  Rahul Dravid

  Determination, Mistake, Thinking

  "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

  Shahid Afridi

  Intention, Retiring

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• I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

  Barack Obama

  Country, Play, Watches

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• Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Running, Stars

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• What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -Soren

  Kathryn Lasky

  Heart, Feet, Giving

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