Top 60 Imran Tahir Quotes

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.

If I get a wicket, I just want to show people that how big that is for me.

When I go to bed after playing a Test match, I want to feel that I gave 100%.

I always come on the ground with a smile on the face, but inside, I’m always ready to fight and try to give as much as I can.

It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.

For me, what is important is, as a legspinner, you need determination, especially in modern-day cricket. You need to feel that you can change a game.

I really can’t pinpoint why I celebrate the way I do. I just love it when I pick a wicket, and it comes naturally to me to express my joy in the manner that I do.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

My wife is a beautician, but the first time I did something to my hair was not through her.

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.

Moving to South Africa and trying to make a mark as a cricketer and then make it to the international team hasn’t been easy. This is why I want to enjoy every moment of it.

I don’t want to retire – I love the game and have a lot of respect and passion for the game.

I have learnt that patience is important: patience when you bowl and also in how you handle life.

I’m just really honoured to play for South Africa. Just to be part of this team is a special feeling.

Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.

If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don’t want to play this game.

When you always walk into the middle with green and gold, I just want to take 10 wickets every game.

One needs to have variations. You won’t survive if you don’t have one – especially playing in India, as they are good players of spin.

I’ve been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

Its strong management that makes players feel comfortable.

Whenever I am playing, I try to contribute to my team.

I have always wanted to play in the World Cup.

I don’t want to just keep playing for the sake of playing. The day I realise I’m not good enough, I’ll go. I want to play as long as I can – not just to make up the numbers but to play with utmost passion.

The off spinner’s job is to contain; for me, leg spinners need to have a bigger heart than anyone else because it is easy to blame them.

Fifty overs is a long time. It’s a good challenge, and you have enough time to show your skills.

There are not too many leg-spinners in the world, and if you look closely, Mishra bhai will stand out as one of the best.

I am enjoying the experience of working with Mishra. For me, he is a world-class spinner.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That’s what we do for a living.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it’s going to be really hard to come back.

Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition’s mistakes and try to learn from them.

I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.

It’s every cricketer’s dream to play in the World Cup.

People think of me as well-travelled, but I had not been out of Pakistan until I was picked in the Under-19 squad in 1997. The flight went from Lahore to Karachi and then from Karachi to South Africa. It was my first time on a plane and my first trip overseas.

I try not to miss my prayers and the 30 fasts in Ramazan, but even if I do miss them due to my cricket, I make up for them later on.

I’m always looking for new and exciting opportunities.

I will bowl defensively if I have to.

Playing with Morne Morkel and Dale Steyn, I am a very lucky guy. Not many people are going to attack those two, which means the batsmen will attack me. And if they attack me, there is always a chance I can get a wicket.

I wouldn’t want to overstay in the team for too long. I want to leave with respect.

I don’t think it is difficult to balance professional sports with practising your faith. It is very easy if you follow the right path.

If you look at me outside the cricket ground, I am a simple, normal guy, like everyone else. But on the field, that passion flows because I have been through a lot of tough times and have lost many special people.

Hampshire were the club who gave me my first chance, so I owe them a lot.

I just like to enjoy my cricket.

According to me, a leg-spinner is such a character who, on his day, can win the match for you if he is bowling well and has the support of the captain and the coach.

My biggest ambition, ever since I was a boy in Pakistan, has been to play cricket at the highest level. If I can do so for South Africa, I’ll give everything.

In professional cricket, everybody wants to win.

The googly and the slider are my favourite type of deliveries, and I love it when batsmen try to cut or sweep me and, while attempting those strokes, get lbw or clean bowled.

I have always been an attacking bowler. I am more than happy to go for a few runs and get a few wickets.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it’s hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

I think I feel good as a South African player that people say that we always get into semifinal and lose… this is one of the biggest achievements to get into semifinal. Not many teams do that. For me, it’s a real achievement.

It’s the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

For me, the most important thing is that the team should do well.

You have to just adjust to the conditions quickly because there is a big difference in 50-over and 20-over cricket, and if you back yourself, you will do well.

I want to be the guy the captain can trust.

My wife and kid always support me.

When someone attacks you, there is always an opportunity, and that’s what I look for.

It’s always tough for a spinner to bowl against India.

I always believe I will take wickets.

In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.

I just like challenge. I had a lot of them in my life, and then when it comes to that, I think I can be ready for anything, really.