I won some winners’ medals with Lancashire – a NatWest trophy and a couple of Sunday Leagues.
– Andrew Flintoff
India – I’ve always felt at home there. Delhi and Mumbai and the Taj Mahal are all incredible – but it’s the people I love. Indians are so interesting and accommodating and friendly. The best hotel I’ve stayed at there is the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur: its architecture is unbelievable.
– Andrew Flintoff
Sometimes, there’s a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.
– Andrew Flintoff
It’s not in our hands to control what people say about us.
– Sarfaraz Ahmed
When you are captain in any format, it definitely brings a lot of pressure on you and this is why its a big responsibility.
– Sarfaraz Ahmed
Winning and losing is part of the game and it’s not that we are the first team to have lost a match; previous teams also have faced defeats.
– Sarfaraz Ahmed
The educated youth are the future of Pakistan and they will make us proud in the future too.
– Sarfaraz Ahmed
I learnt to be fearless.
– Sarfaraz Ahmed
I hope that there can be a solution where T20 is still a huge part of the game, especially if young guys today understand what a Test match is all about. To me, you have to learn the game from the grass-roots and then reach the next stage where you can be explosive.
– Viv Richards
I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can imagine the little fights and scraps we had.
– Viv Richards
If you don’t know your history, you don’t have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.
– Viv Richards
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.
– Viv Richards
Life is not all about parties and frolicking. You have to show you care for people, too.
– Viv Richards
When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.
– Brian Lara
With all franchise cricket going on around in the world, the intensity of the game, sometimes is a burden.
– Brian Lara
It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.
– Brian Lara
I want to be a consistent individual. I want to be someone my team can depend on all the time.
– Brian Lara
You don’t need a group of superstars, you need a team working together to bring you better results.
– Brian Lara
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
– Imran Khan
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
– Imran Khan
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
– Imran Khan
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
– Imran Khan
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
– Imran Khan
I don’t like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don’t like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.
– Steve Waugh
It doesn’t matter how pretty you look it’s how many runs you get.
– Steve Waugh
It’s a hard life as a professional cricketer. It’s not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
– Steve Waugh
You’ve got to have dreams to keep you going.
– Steve Waugh
Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.
– Steve Waugh
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
– Steve Waugh
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
– Steve Waugh