Here’s a fine collection of cricket quotes for batsmen, coaches, and fans around the world. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world with 2.5 billion fans (soccer is #10).
So if you’re a fan or are just looking for inspirational or funny cricket quotes, we can help.
Check out this collection of the best cricket quotes and see if something suits your fancy. There are lots of choices, so you may benefit from multiple readings. Enjoy.
Best Cricket Quotes
- The real test of a cricketer is not just in the wins, but in how he handles defeat and comes back stronger.
Ishant Sharma - Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties.
Sir Don Bradman - In cricket, as in life, you need to have a vision, set goals, and work tirelessly to achieve them.
Rishabh Pant - Cricket is not just about talent, it’s about the attitude, dedication, and sacrifices you make to pursue your passion.
Mohammed Shami - No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.
Virat Kohli - 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, An Eye for Cricket - A true batsman should, in most of his strokes, tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus - Cricket is a religion in India, and I’m proud to be a part of this incredible journey.
Ravindra Jadeja - The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Good Cricket Quotations
- Cricket is a game of uncertainties, and you need to be prepared for challenges and adapt to changing situations.
Jasprit Bumrah - My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
Rahul Dravid - Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes. Chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed.
John Fowles - It is as well for us to remember when we are watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may all look, they do not achieve their success without toil and sweat and that there are times, even with the greatest, when they must seem to themselves, as we humble performers so frequently seem to ourselves, to be batting with a broomstick, with a barn door for a wicket.
E.W. Swanton Denis Compton: A Cricket Sketch.
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Imran Khan Quotes
Imran Khan is a cricketer and former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless. Two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I were a materialist, I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
- Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match, the pressure is doubled.
Sachin Tendulkar Quotations
The Indian cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar, is widely regarded as one of the best batsmen who ever played cricket.
- 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.
- Critics haven’t taught me my cricket, and they don’t know what my body and mind are up to.
- But, eventually, it is a game of cricket.
- Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart, and you start building on that. After that, as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
- When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones.
Famous Cricket Sayings
- To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sports, enjoy it, be positive, and try to win.
Ian Botham - One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other’s company. I don’t like discussing cricket off the field.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranji trophy, I think money is there. There’s no good reason why you should not work hard because, at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - Down the mine, I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginary balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood - My job is to perform, enjoy cricket, and thank God for whatever he has given me.
Suresh Raina - Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Motivational Cricket Insights
- 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.
Sachin Tendulkar - Cricket is the only sport in the world where you are absolutely horrible at something, and you still need to go out and do it.
Harsha Bhogle - A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.
Adam Gilchrist - My first bat was shaped of a coconut branch. And from that day, all I wanted to do was be a cricketer.
Brian Lara - Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.
Unknown - First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.
Wasim Akram - I want people to remember me as a good person, not as a good cricketer.
MS Dhoni
Inspirational Cricket Quotes
- Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
Robert Mugabe - In the game of cricket, it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsmen than to bowlers.
I.A.R. Peebles, Talking of Cricket - Collectively and individually, fielding is largely a matter of thought and discipline.
I. A. R. Peebles - I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either.
Harold Pinter - A run is more difficult to make than no save because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
K.S. Rangitsinhji - I hate losing, and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground, it’s a different zone altogether, and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar - You don’t play for revenge. You play for respect and pride.
Sunil Gavaskarame
Funny Cricket Quotes
- I bowl so slowly that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back.
James M, Barrie - Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alec Douglas - I can’t really say I’m batting badly. I’m not batting long enough to be batting badly.
Greg Chappell - Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes - The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
Richie Benaud
Humorous Takes
- I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
Katharine Whitehorn - Strangely, in slow-motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
David Acfield - Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul Hogan - I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
Sachin Tendulkar Isn’t cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Sachin Tendulkar
Short Cricket Quotes
- I’m jealous of my parents; I’ll never have a kid as cool as theirs.
Chris Gayle - Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.
Unknown - Sure, luck means a lot in cricket. Not having a good fielder is bad luck.
Unknown - Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.
Unknown - You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Unknown - Childhood without Galli cricket is like no childhood.
Unknown - If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev - Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams - Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Rohit Sharma - The bat is not a toy; it’s a weapon.
Virat Kohli - That ain’t cricket!
Unknown
Cricket Sayings
- The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on-up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - Sports teach you that there is always a second inning in life. If you fail today, there’s a second inning, maybe two days later.
Harsha Bhogle - Cricket is quite a gentle, harmless game, but he is a lucky man who does not have to sweat some blood before he’s done with it.
Unknown - To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
Shane Warne - The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss at the right time.
Unknown - 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 - Cricket is quite a gentle, harmless game, but he is a lucky man who does not have to sweat some blood before he’s done with it.
Unknown - Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
Robert Mugabe - You don’t need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgment.
Amit Ray - Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest pales in comparison.
Virat Kohli
Cricket Quotes FAQ
Here are some frequently asked questions about cricket quotes.
What is a famous English cricket quote?
George Bernard Shaw wrote, “The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
What is a good quote about cricket?
Bhuvneshwar Kumar said, “Cricket is a game of continuous learning, and you need to keep improving and evolving to stay ahead.”
What is the Robin Williams quote on cricket?
Robin Williams said, “Cricket is baseball on valium.”
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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