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"I don't care whether I bore the hell out of the opposition but I am going to try and bat as long as possible."
Saurashtra batsman Shitanshu Kotak before batting six hours for 73 as his side looked for a semi-final clinching draw against Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy. Kotak's strike-rate this season is 34.75
"I've played 250 one-day games ... I'll sign it for you later."
Michael Kasprowicz's sarcastic response after Redbacks batsman Mark Cosgrove asked him to remove his white wrist band on his non-bowling arm. Brings back memories of Dean Jones and Curtly Ambrose, doesn't it?
"We had to listen to his verbal diarrhoea all the time. He is just a goose and has no idea and lacks common sense."
Shane Warne talks about his favourite man, former Australia coach John Buchanan
"We must be positive and confident in what we were able to achieve collectively in this region and build on these unparalleled successes. There were so many people who never thought it was even possible. That we did it and surpassed targets achieved by significantly larger and wealthier hosts is an achievement we can be proud of."
The final word on the 2007 World Cup from organising chief Chris Dehring. And there we all were thinking the whole thing had been an unparalleled disaster
"I felt like a fish out of water. It was all a bit foreign. I was pretty nervous after six weeks without playing so things are pretty green at the moment."
Stephen Fleming after the Twenty20 charity match in Hamilton, his first competitive game in a while
"There are generally no reporters at our matches, either to see our team's performances, or my dimples."
Mithali Raj, captain of the Indian women's team, bemoans the lack of media coverage of women's cricket
"[The reasons are] not for me to reveal. It's down as 'rested', but they're not for me to reveal."
New Zealand coach John Bracewell claimed to have inside knowledge on why Adam Gilchrist was rested for the final match of the Chappell-Hadlee series. He later apologised for the same comment.
"My lifetime was associated with bouncers but the sweetest bouncer I received was when Pawar told me that I would be receiving the award."
Former Indian captain Nari Contractor on receiving the Indian board's Lifetime Achievement Award. Contractor's career had been cut short by a vicious bouncer from Charlie Griffith
"They can question me and I can go and do the tests but I can't see a problem with my action at all. Maybe they should watch the ball more."
An angry Shaun Tait after suggestions that some New Zealand players had questioned his action
"I've always subscribed to the theory that you shouldn't make a fast bowler angrier than he already is."
A deadpan James Sutherland, Australia's chief exec, when asked for his thoughts about Tait's action
"I'm not overly happy about players going to England and playing county cricket ... but the reality is that it's the way our contracts are structured."
Sutherland again, this time when asked about his views on players signing for Indian competitions
"We were competitive in all the three Tests."
Which series was Shoaib Malik watching? Pakistan bowled out India just twice, once for over 600, conceded over 600 twice and were saved from a collapse of ten wickets in two sessions by bad light in Bangalore
"Out of obscurity to nowhere"
Ian Healy struggles to put into words Luke Pomersbach's rushed debut at Perth after he was called up from the car park
"I thought it was one of my mates playing a joke on me and I nearly hung up and he said 'no, it's not a joke'."
Luke Pomersbach himself could not believe it
"I'm getting irritable because there's a bit of a***-covering going on. If you'd put a Test attack on that surface you'd probably have killed someone once the divots dried out."
Auckland coach Mark O'Donnell is still fuming after his side lost within two days to Otago on a questionable track in Dunedin...which is about to host a New Zealand Test against Bangladesh
"I was waiting for him to break my record [227] but the power went off when he was on 225. I missed the moment."
Former Indian batsman Vinod Kambli didn't get to see Sourav Ganguly creating a new record for the highest score by an Indian left-hander
"Ask him about his nuts, they are massive."
Brad Haddin gives a group of journalists a not-so-subtle hint about one of the symptoms of Phil Jaques' recent bout of the mumps
"Being Hoggard's runner would be like being Prince Edward's break-dance instructor: the pay would be fine and, like as not, you would have plenty of time to yourself."
Giles Smith, the Times columnist, thinks that Alastair Cook found a cushy job when he was Matthew Hoggard's runner at Kandy
"Who made them boring?"
Looking straight at the camera, a deadpan Richie Benaud responds to Geoff Boycott's call for four-day Tests because five days are, apparently, boring
"I realised the ball was bigger than one person, bigger than Gilchrist. It was the public's ball."
In a speech worthy of a film, John, the man who found the ball Adam Gilchrist hit for his hundredth Test six, reveals why he decided to hand it back
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Tony Greig Show: Why India have the advantage against Australia, England's team for India, and West Indies' continuing crises
