Quotes About Bowling

Almost every bowler bowls a slower ball, but not many can be deceptive. A slower ball can only be deceptive if it is different, if it is floating, swinging.

I'd been chased by Valkyries. I'd been chased by elves with firearms. I'd been chased by dwarves with a tank. Now, lucky me, I got to be chased by giants with giant bowling balls.

Swing is my main weapon.

Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything.

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Lasith Malinga has been a great influence for me to bowl yorkers consistently.

To win Test matches consistently you've got to take 20 wickets - yes, you've got to score runs but if you can't bowl a team out it doesn't matter how many runs you score.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

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

Playing cricket in England is what I am looking forward to, and I would love to bowl at Lord's again.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.

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

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

I bowled in tandem with Brett Lee, who produced some fast, fiery spells. When you've got someone bowling up above 90mph, it has a fear factor that not many people really enjoy.

The [bowling] ball flew out jerkily, sailed about four feet, hit the lane with a loud crack , and then promptly entered the gutter. Roman walked up beside me, and we silently watched the ball complete its journey. 'Are you always that rough with balls?' he asked finally. 'Most men don't complain.

Trent, is this a date? He didn't reach for the key still in the ignition. You never told me how your car got impounded. Is this a date? I asked again, more stridently. Silent, he sat there, his hands on the wheel as he stared at the front door and the neon bowling pins flashing on and off. I want it to be.

There are times I do single wicket bowling, and there are times I try, practise, hitting a specific length.

In England, you don't really practise reverse-swing, and not everyone can do it.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

When I started bowling with a cricket ball, I was quite nippy, because I was already used to exerting more energy with the tape ball. So by the time I made the switch, I had already strengthened my shoulders.

I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it's also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.

At Arbor Court, with the cats fed and tea made, she said, "Bowling." "I had to get away from the bookstore," I said, "and there were things I needed to do, but I wasn't ready to do them yet. And every once in a while for the past few years I've told myself that I really ought to go over to Bowl-Mor, and I never did, and then the building came down and all I had left was a resentment.

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne