A fine collection of cricket quotes for batsmen around the world.
Looking for cricket quotes for inspiration or motivation? Or maybe one to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotes and see if something suits your fancy.
Best Cricket Quotations
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
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.
Good Cricket Quotes
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
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Imran Khan Quotes
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.
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
Sachin Tendulkar Quotations
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 sport, 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
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
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 Quotes
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
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 fielders 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 Thoughts and 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 innings in life. If you fail today, there’s a second innings maybe two days later.
Harsha Bhogle
Cricket is quite a gentle, harmless game, but he is a lucky man who has not 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 has not 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 rest pales in comparison.
Virat Kohli
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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