Top 10 cricket quotes

We will take a look at some of the famous cricket quotes over the years. The gentlemans game has always had admirers from all quarters. When you hear about the sport from people who have played the game or from people who have followed it, you realise its essence. Here are the quotes:

#10 MS Dhoni

“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.”

The Indian Captain tells us that he learnt about the game by playing it rather than studying or watching it.

#9 Robert Mugabe

“Cricket? It civilises people and creates good gentlemen.I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe. I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.”

A few former Zimbabwean players may not have nice things to say about their President, but he certainly has a lot of good things to say about the sport in general.

#8 Hugh Jackman

“One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.”

Australian actor Hugh Jackman as we all know is a huge cricket fan, here he explains about the centenary Test he attended while he was a kid.

#7 Virat Kohli

“I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.”

A heart melting quote indeed. India’s rising young superstar had this to say when a journalist asked about what cricket really means to him

#6 Steve Waugh

“Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.”

The former Aussie captain gives a simple view of why he played the game and also the fact that he was never really formally coached.

#5 Harold Larwood

“A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf.”

Harold explains about the passionate Aussie crowd who are always known to give the opposing teams a tough time on tours.

#4 Ian Botham

“I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”

The mercurial former England all rounder reveals how he decided that cricket would be his future.

#3 Jeffrey Bernard

“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.”

The late British journalist lets everybody know the love he had for the sport.

#2 Fred Trueman

“If there is any game in the world that attracts the half- baked theorist more than cricket I have yet to hear of it.”

The Yorkshire fast bowling great who also became famous for his quotes believed that cricket is the best sport in the world.

#1 Rahul Dravid

“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.”

This is what the great man had to say on the day he announced the world that he was retiring from the sport.