Quotes About Bowling

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

One evening in October, 1937, Doc scheduled a bowling match against the Italian Community Club, which was composed largely of college men who held their meetings every two weeks in the Norton Street Settlement House.

I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross--not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table.

Amit Mishra has got that experience. He has played 10-12 years of international cricket. Whenever he bowls those four overs, he knows exactly what his plans are. He has bowled to almost every player, and he knows where to bowl to them.

An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.

I am now bowling 135 clicks at times, and yeah, it's good.

I find it really awkward to go to dinner on a first date. I like to go to a comfortable, loungy place or do something fun, like bowling or a concert.

We all know that spinners dominate in Indian conditions, so it's good if medium pacers can get at least two wickets.

Sri Lankan wickets may not be conducive for fast bowling, but it doesn't mean that the quicks can't get wickets there.

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

I love watching Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav steam in. They both are sharp, possess good pace, and swing the ball - making them lethal.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.

Being a swing bowler, bowling at the death is just an added facet in my bowling.

I have always enjoyed bowling in England because there is some swing around, which is my strength.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.