Cricket quotes

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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 Mugabe100

◆ 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 Hogan99

◆ Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

- Imran Khan99

◆ During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

- Imran Khan99

◆ One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

- Matthew Hayden99

◆ I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

- Thomas Keneally99

◆ Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

- Tony Greig99

◆ When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.

- Geoffrey Boycott99

◆ 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 Botham99

◆ The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

- Jeffrey Bernard99

◆ When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

- Sunil Gavaskar99

◆ A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

- Richie Benaud99

◆ Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

- Henry Chadwick99

◆ To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ 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 Mugabe99