Playing Cricket Quotes

• I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

  Viv Richards

  Thinking, Play, Perfect

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

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• To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

  Shane Warne

  Simple, Games, Play

  "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Littles, Too Much, Fields

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• My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Thinking, Views

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• Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

  Edmund Blunden

  Summer, Play, Sun

  Edmund Blunden (1957). “Poems of many years”

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• Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

  Wasim Akram

  Once In A Lifetime, My Time, Cricketers

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• 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

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• 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.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Running

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• I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

  Satya Nadella

  Team, Thinking, Careers

  "10 things to know: Satya Nadella" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. February 4, 2014.

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• 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

  Trying, Eras, Gone

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• 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

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Land, Village, Cricket

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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• Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

  W. G. Grace

  Eye, Play, Luck

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• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Giving Up, Play, Politician

  "Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar's political move" by Harmeet Shah Singh, www.cnn.com. May 02, 2012.

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• I love to watch movies and play cricket.

  Riteish Deshmukh

  Play, Watches, Cricket

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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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• I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!

  Donald Bradman

  Player, Two, Wife

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• 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

  Team, Sadness, Pride

  "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Football, Teacher, School

  "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.

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• Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

  Wasim Akram

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Hero, Mind

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• It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Years, Done, Imagine

  "Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement" By Paul Gittings, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

  Keith Miller

  Arses, Pressure, Cricket

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• I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

  Usain Bolt

  Track, Fields, Firsts

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

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