Quotes by Brian Lara

KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he's made for.

It doesn't matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board. One person can't get 400 runs on the board if there is nobody at the other end.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

Yes, golf is a weird game. I was capable of dealing with moving and bouncing cricket balls, but this little silly ball, sitting on the ground, gave me quite a headache early on for few years, but taught me how to be disciplined in controlling the ball.

Pretty early, when I started playing golf, I was compared to Garfield Sobers, who played both cricket and golf.

I know the history of West Indies cricket and I know what it means to the people.

Every senior player has to play a part and help the skipper by performing their duties on the field and secondly by performing their duties off the field.

Every time I go out into the middle I say I have to give 100 per cent, and I do.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.