Hilary Beckles Quotes

If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it's not so different.

You can really put yourself out there in front of the world, make a name for yourself in international cricket.

We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.

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

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.

The difference between first-class cricket and international cricket isn't skill, it's attitude and the way you go about things.

It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.

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.

When I was aspiring to play for India, I'd look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were very intimidating.

It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.

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

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

The thing about international cricket is that you never really get to know the guys you play against. The T20 leagues allow you to actually know an individual.

It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

Every player needs to be aware of the levels of fitness needed to play international cricket.

I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.

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.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

Over the years I have been watching Pakistan when playing against them or with them in county cricket. And they have been brilliant bowlers and batsmen and great individuals.