139 Quotes by Brian Lara

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

This is a moment I will cherish forever... the first man to score 500 runs.

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

It's a cliche that cricket is the only unifying force in the Caribbean. It is but there are a lot of other factors that keep us apart. Success in sport and war will always unite but you need to have a greater foundation and greater core.

In cricket, you should keep your wrist as straight as possible, unlike golf.

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

I've been part of five World Cups and we reached the semis only in 1996.

As a boy, you never really thought of Hall of Fames, you never really thought of records.