Brian Lara Quotes

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.

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

It's an honour to captain the West Indies.

When I was a kid, my first dream was to play Test matches, and the second one was to play 100 Test matches because there are very few people who have played 100 Tests for India.

Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.

Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.

There is nothing quite like an Ashes trip Down Under.

I want to captain England in more Tests than anyone else.

I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.

In the past, I bowled at players like Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

The West Indies team I played for in the 1970s and 80s was truly blessed to have so many brilliant individuals in one group. We had many great fast bowlers but the deadliest was my fellow Antiguan Andy Roberts.

Lord's is a special place. I used to love watching games there as a youngster and I've been fortunate enough to play a couple of games there.

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world's leading scorers, I don't see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn't do it, nor Muhammad Yousuf.

I am thankful that I played the game at a time when the West Indies climbed to heights that have never been repeated.

I know the history of West Indies cricket and I know what it means to the people.

I really enjoyed the period in which I played my cricket. I can look back now and wish I started 10 years later and played in the T20s. But I also wish I was born 10 years earlier so that I could have been part of the all-conquering West Indies team of that time.

It was always a dream to play Test for India, and I was very happy when I got my first wicket.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Big wins in the first Test of an Ashes series polarise everything moving forward.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.