Brian Lara Quotes

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that's the kind of challenge I love to face.

I don't like to follow someone, but I really like A B de Villiers as a batsman. I think he has got all the strokes and plays according to the situation.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

My job stays the same, whether we're acting by candlelight, against a green screen, or on a stage somewhere. Which is just as well, because I really couldn't do anything else.

If I can be number one in the world without power hitting, then I don't need power hitting. But when I need to, I utilise it well.

My main strength is my bowling, but where I bat, I can also contribute for the team, and that is important.

The 'Natmeg' from England's Natalie Sciver attracted a lot of attention as a brilliant piece of improvisation, which requires every bit as much talent as a Tillakaratne Dilshan 'scoop,' or a Jos Buttler 'ramp' shot.

We are all really working hard to improve our batting.

I only know how to act. I don't know anything else.

The guys in the top five, they're good everywhere. Me, I'm just almost one-dimensional.

If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

You can call it my bias or love for Harbhajan but if you are picking three best spinners in the country, he's got to be among them. Harbhajan is one bowler who should be playing all three formats of the game.

I know my technique suits all sorts of wickets, so I just back myself.

Griezmann is an extraordinary player who adapts to all the needs of the team.

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.