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Last updated: 22 august 2012

"I'm not the kind of guy who cares how many hundreds I've scored. My personal goals have always and will always take a backseat to the team."
- AB de Villiers


 "I want the guys to play for the team, and for there to be no selfishness. Everything must be sacrificed for the team."
- AB de Villiers


 "I am in love with my country and I want to win major series and tournaments for it."
- AB de Villiers


"At the end of the day you want to be remembered for the number of wickets and the number of good spells that you bowled, and not what you did when you got a wicket and not what you told the batsman when he got out."
- Anil Kumble

 
"I have always believed that, no matter what, cricket should talk."
- Anil Kumble


"I never played my cricket thinking that there was a microphone on, or selectors watching, or there is somebody else in the press box watching - just go and play your cricket."
- Anil Kumble


"I see playing as a bit like being an actor. As an actor you want people to come and see your film and that's just what it's like as a cricketer. The more people that come, the more it inspires me to do better and better." 
- Azhar Mahmood 


"Playing cricket in India is always incredible as they love the game so much."
- Azhar Mahmood 


 "I say it all the time – we in the West Indies take very good talent and make it average, and people like Australia and England and India, take average talent, and make it very, very good, and that is where the problem lies."
- Brian Lara
 

"If it happens that I don't play cricket again I can walk away knowing I've given it my best."
- Brett Lee


"I love watching spin bowlers bowling, no matter who it is. But probably Warne was at the top of the list."
- Daniel Vettori 


"As long as you never back away from a tough situation, and make sure that you are the one in the hardest spot to bowl, I think most people will respect you as a bowler and as a captain."
- Daniel Vettori


"I'm going to be in the same dressing room with the guys I've looked up to all my life. Just to be next to them is going to be very, very special and I might actually ask for some autographs."
- David Warner


" The calm with which this team approaches challenges is the key to success."
- Gautam Gambhir


"The way cricket, and more importantly the success of the Indian team, binds the nation and helps people forget their challenges is the real kick. We are lucky we can do that."
- Gautam Gambhir 


"It's hard to take a bowling-machine technique into a first-class game or a Test match, because on a bowling machine you can survive in first gear. In a Test match or a first-class game, you've got to be in fourth or fifth gear every single ball." 
- Justin Langer 


"Everyone can keep developing their technique, but my experience would tell me that if you're edging balls or getting bowled a lot, it tends to be that you're not watching the ball as closely as you should be. And if you're not watching the ball closely, it's generally that you're down on a bit of confidence or you're distracted."
- Justin Langer


"Bowlers always come to me for suggestions on the field settings they want. I always give them the first preference. If they run out of ideas, that's when I step in and give them my inputs and see whether they are okay with that. It's always the bowlers' options first and foremost."
 - Mahela Jayawardene


"I like to create those pressure situations which would make the batsmen make mistakes. You need to be proactive. Some tactics work, some don't."
- Mahela Jayawardene  


"The last game we played with three fast bowlers and one spinner, and we were 21 minutes short. If we play with four fast bowlers, definitely I'll get a match ban."
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni


"I've never had a day like this in my career and I hope I never will again."
- Michael Clarke


"All international sport is probably 90% mental and 10% technical. But as soon as anything goes wrong, we always go looking in search of something technical, don't we?"
- Paul Collingwood

 
 "I feel privileged to have had the career I've had, and I'm very satisfied with it. I've been to some great places, met some great people, and I've given it my all. What more could I ask? I know I've been a very lucky man."
- Paul Collingwood 


"All of us need to be playing in the Australian way, which means a lot of aggression on the field. However, it is not necessary that we go over the top with it."
- Ricky ponting


 "To be focused on the present is the most important factor, and that is what not only me, but the entire team would want - to achieve those results which will make us smile." 
- Sachin Tendulkar


"It is an honour to be nominated to parliament. I have not fought an election, but I am an active cricketer and I will be focused on the game." 
- Sachin Tendulkar

 
"When I started playing in 1989, 260 used to be a winning score, now it is just an average score."
- Sachin Tendulkar


"Changes are going to take place and you always try and make changes to become a better player. The basic idea is to cut down on the risky shots and try and be as consistent as possible."
- Sachin Tendulkar 


"Well, I don't have any regrets now.I would not sit back after 20 years and think that I didn't try my best. I am pretty sure that I did whatever I thought was best for Indian cricket."
- Sachin Tendulkar


"At that time, when I was removed from captaincy, I said in my statement that you can stop me from leading India, but no one can stop me from playing cricket. Playing cricket is the ultimate thing in my life."
- Sachin Tendulkar


"As you grow older, obviously the body is going to change physically and your thinking obviously changes. You have to keep fighting that. The body will slow down, the question is about how much time it takes and how you adjust to the change."
 - Sachin Tendulkar

 
"Sometime your body doesn't move in the same direction as your mind. You want to go there but you just can't because it's a body, not a machine. Sometimes you know you should leave that ball but you just can't."
- Sachin Tendulkar


"The sad thing is, I'm not sure whether the Sri Lankan board knows I'm completing 20 years today."
- Sanath Jayasuriya


"I don't think about much more than cricket. My life is all about this game, so I am not worried about anything else. " 
- Shakib Al Hasan 


"When kids, while they are going to school in a van or a bus, see me on the streets, they start screaming and shouting. I like such things but I don't like it when people surround me."
- Shakib Al Hasan


"West Indies cricket is not about me, it is not about the Board, it is not about the players, it is about the fans, the West Indian people. I feel if I am selected to play on their behalf, I cannot disappoint them."
 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul

   
"I am very sad when there is an impasse, but I feel the only way to get beyond this is to play the cricket, that is what I was born to do. West Indies cricket is my life." 
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul

 

"In a game, one has to win and the other lose. You have to be graceful both in victory and defeat."

 - Sourav Ganguly

"Yesterday is history - his story. Tomorrow is mystery - my story."
 - Sree Santh


"I practise wherever I get a chance. Even when I am at home in Ghaziabad, I never skip practice. The more you practice, the more you are able to let your bat do the talking during international matches."
- Suresh Raina


"I don't listen to people, don't watch TV and don't read newspapers. It's better to use the time to work on your game."
- Virender Sehawag