Imran Tahir Quotes

You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Every day is different, and every wicket is different.

Character-wise, I try to always switch it up. Whatever I'm doing now, I try to do the complete opposite next.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

I like any good game. I don't care what the genre is.

In nature and state, it is safer to change many things than one.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is the members of the species that are most adaptive to change.

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.

To me, Shane Warne is a great turner of the ball. I like his aggressive attitude, I love the way he attacks batsmen, and I give him 100 per cent for that, as not enough spinners bowl with that approach, but in my estimation, Subhash Gupte was a better leg-spinner.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

For me, what is important is, as a legspinner, you need determination, especially in modern-day cricket. You need to feel that you can change a game.

Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.

Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to go off and do other things purely because it was out there, you know. I'm kind of glad that I did and that I didn't just stick with one thing.

Every now and then you might have to change things around. It's not something that is good to do a lot - especially with your batting - but every now and then, I don't think it's a bad thing.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

I feel, as a captain, that when you face a batsman who plays spin well you feel as if you are a fielder short.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

Always good to shake it up and do something different.

It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.

Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.