Quotes by Cricketers

There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.
Kevin Pietersen
Indian cricket, and the youngsters themselves, are dealing with issues inconceivable a few summers ago. Riches and all the attendant temptations are thrown at them before they have started shaving regularly. It's not their fault. It's no one's fault. That is the marketplace. Inevitably, though, it can distract attention from the long struggle towards mastery. Cricket does not give itself away; it expects players to apply themselves, to think and study and seek. It plays tricks, too, pretends that sixes and slower balls and the other shortcuts matter. Cricket sets traps, flatters players and calls them kings when they are barely princes.
Peter Roebuck
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
Shane Warne
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.
Imran Khan
What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well.
Sachin Tendulkar
We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation
Imran Khan
This could be addictive.
Kevin Pietersen
My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah
Imran Khan
It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.
Keith Miller
The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
Donald Bradman
The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.
Azhar Ali
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.
Graeme Smith
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth
Imran Khan
Bravery is standing with the truth and right
Imran Khan
Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.
R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
The “romance” of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn’t stir a man’s spirit or blood. So don’t come out to be a missionary as an experiment; it is useless and dangerous. Only come if you feel you would rather die than not come. Don’t come if you want to make a great name or want to live long. Come if you feel there is no greater honor, after living for Christ, than to die for Him.
C.T. Studd
Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
Imran Khan
He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung so low he felt he strolled among them and he could see indeed, so clear the air, the very flames of their inner workings.
Keith Miller
Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again.
Saleem Durrani
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
Cliff Gladwin
There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.
Imran Khan
Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.
Imran Khan
I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right
Imran Khan
I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam,' and of his homeland 'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.
Imran Khan
Allah exalts whom he wills!
Imran Khan
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Imran Khan
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
Imran Khan
In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.
Keith Miller
I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
Ricky Ponting
When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.
Imran Khan
There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures
Imran Khan
I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.
Andrew Strauss
Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.
Saleem Durrani
We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.
Saleem Durrani
At the edge of his consciousness, just outside the comprehensible grasp, he could sense the maelstrom of his repressed emotions; the humanity that was forced from him long ago. What was left was pure emotionless logic. Gone was the pre-tense of bumbling simpleton; gone was the outward show of social mediocrity; there was no reason to play human now. This was where Kato thrived, what he was crafted for, and as panic settled on the mortals below, Kato slowly unfurled the phenomenon that lay within.
James Hockley
Love never betrays. People do.
Rohit Sharma
Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life.
Rohit Sharma
Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope.
Rohit Sharma
...his favorite books, those he'd read over and over so he knew just the lurch his heart would make when he turned the page and encountered the illustration of the despondent dragon under a half-moon or the fervor with which he flipped the final pages of another, the story so vivid he felt his relationship with that book was less an act of reading than a visit, a place he went to.
Keith Miller
We never look at the grass, though it is ubiquitous. If it's left alone to shake its hair loose it will produce tiny tassels and flowers, miniature and beautiful, that I'd never noticed before. Beauty is so often size and commotion for us, and fancy labels, that the subterfuge of loveliness all around us goes unseen.
Keith Miller
When I was older, I found Iqbal's work hugely inspirational. He argued against an unquestioning acceptance of Western democracy as the self-governing model, and instead suggested that by following the rules of Islam a society would tend naturally towards social justice, tolerance, peace and equality. Iqbal's interpretation of Islam differs very widely from the narrow meaning that is sometimes given to it. For Iqbal, Islam is not just the name for certain beliefs and forms of worship. The difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is not merely a theological one - it is a difference of a fundamental attitude towards life.
Imran Khan
The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.
Graham Gooch
Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars,' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.
Keith Miller
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan
Own your own dreams
Noel David
One of the most difficult things is to be friends with someone you love so immensely. It hurts. And the worst part is, you have to veil your pain with a smile. And every bit of that smile hurts too.
Rohit Sharma
Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
Keith Miller
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
Imran Khan
Own your own dreamsCornelius Crapp to Gerald Crapp
Noel David
Sometimes, I love to fight with you…Because, we end up loving each other more.
Rohit Sharma
Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance
Saleem Durrani
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
Sachin Tendulkar
Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell.
C.T. Studd
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ will last.
C.T. Studd