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They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. -- Fred Trueman
A bowler can make or break a chap. -- John Newton
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler. -- Sachin Tendulkar
I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid. -- Matthew Morrison
Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler. -- Andy Lau
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over. -- Richie Benaud
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. -- Perry Christie
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. -- John Mortimer
I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know? -- Warren Moon
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. -- Dennis Quaid
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years. -- Harbhajan Singh
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion. -- Mary Quant
When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather. -- Oona Chaplin
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. -- Chris Hardwick
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. -- Craig Brown
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat! -- Ian Mckellen
A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge. -- Harbhajan Singh
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives. -- Brian Blessed
From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner - even for a fast bowler, that holds true. -- Rahul Dravid
One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips. -- Rahul Dravid
Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself. -- Geoffrey Boycott
I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago. -- Gabby Douglas
If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine -- David Lloyd
To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom. -- Fred Trueman
I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather. -- Brian Lara
Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months. -- Glenn McGrath
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers." -- Dennis Quaid
Actually I started out as a fast bowler but people told me that I was chucking the ball, so i changed to spin. -- Shahid Afridi
As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two. -- R. H. Bruce Lockhart
I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall. -- Muttiah Muralitharan
I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all. -- Andrew Lang
How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me. -- Shoaib Akhtar
I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats. -- Libba Bray
I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events. -- W. G. Grace
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. -- Douglas Adams
The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat. -- Josephine Tey
Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness. -- Shahid Afridi

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