18 Quotes by Glenn Turner

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

There's no place for vigilante-ism or anything like that. If they saw something and wanted to write it down and they weren't going to confront it, we'd be happy to partner with them. But if they're going to confront and try to become the sheriff of their block, they're just asking to get themselves in trouble.

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.

I would love to play cricket today, with all – I am not just talking of money – the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.