Fidel Edwards Quotes

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.

When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.

My dream is to play Test cricket.

I always wanted to become a cricketer.

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

I was a professional cricketer for 16 years.

I have never tried to hide my ambition to work in county cricket one day.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

Unless you are a good bowler, you won't be in the India A side.

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.

It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

I made tons of runs and got an opportunity to play for Mumbai. Suddenly, people knew who I was, and the cameras were on me. Getting the recognition matters when you are playing school cricket.

I lost my captaincy after winning the series 2-0, and also getting a Test match 100. I never captained India after that. I couldn't play one-day cricket in spite of being the best ODI player in the world at that time.

It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

I have said goodbye to international cricket.

I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra.

My dream was always to play for England, having grown up in the U.K. Playing India as part of my first test match was a coincidence, and it was never an issue. My job was to do a good job for England!

MS Dhoni would know what's best for him. He has served Indian cricket very well.

I have applied to go to either Durham or Loughborough University to study Applied Physics and would like to get some qualification behind me. But when I do think about becoming professional Essex would be my first choice as I have been very happy playing and practising with them.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

I absolutely love my cricket. I would watch it six, seven hours a day when Australia were playing. I grew up in a very spoilt era of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting and others.

It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma.

I would never have left Athletic if it hadn't been for a club like United. I left a different, unique club, with a special philosophy and incredible people.