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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. -- Dan Quayle
Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world. -- Sachin Tendulkar
There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel. -- Virat Kohli
The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia. -- Shane Warne
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one. -- Shane Warne
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive. -- Rahul Dravid
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
Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler. -- Andy Lau
England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath -- Stuart Law
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over. -- Richie Benaud
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. -- John Mortimer
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. -- Perry Christie
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 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 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
I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world, -- Brett Lee
Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world -- Allan Donald
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 reason why Indian bowling has done exceptionally well in this World Cup is MS Dhoni. When we wrote them off, he kept supporting them. When they were struggling, only he was standing by his bowlers. -- V. V. S. Laxman
I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss. -- Brett Lee
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
Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have. -- Sourav Ganguly
Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had. -- Don Johnson
We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better. -- Ricky Ponting
My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things. -- Chris Hardwick
I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald. -- Frank Woolley
Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB... I listen to it all. When I'm not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don't think about batting, or which bowlers I'm going to face. -- Virat Kohli
I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground. -- Virender Sehwag
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into. -- Chris Hardwick
England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that. -- Jeff Thomson
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. -- Ian Peebles
The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat, -- Mushfiqur Rahim
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers. -- Bob Uecker
It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers. -- Kiersten White

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