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Cricket Sports Quotes

This collection of (serious) quotes is from cricket. Cricket seems like a sport just waiting to be quoted about. There are plenty more cricket quotes around that are funny, but these below are chosen to educate, motivate and make you ponder. Enjoy.



"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

"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, 2006

"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

"He's out!"
'- an English newspaper when Bradman was finally dismissed after scoring a world record 334 at Leeds in 1930.

"A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about."
— Justin Langer

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go."
— Justin Langer 

"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

"Bradman bats and bats and bats.''
- an English newspaper after Bradman's triple century at Leeds in 1934.

"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

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment."
— Justin Langer



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