Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

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

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

I first got into cricket by watching Test matches on TV and listening to overseas tours on the radio. The sport really grabbed me - and it didn't matter that England weren't hugely successful back then.

Whether it is Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, or Inzamam ul-Haq, they will also say that they get a lot of respect here because cricket is literally worshiped in India.

Cricket has a stigma of old men in white clothes playing cricket but readdressing that image to people who aren't necessarily cricket lovers may go some way to making it cooler.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.

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.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

I'm aware how special an achievement 100 caps is because of the players that have come before me and the amount they've given to English cricket.

If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

I didn't take many penalties but I never missed one. You just need to stick to your plan.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows