Quote by Sourav Ganguly

Apr 12, 2010 “If you want to make a big deal out of it, go ahead.” 

Mar 25, 2009 “Dance is only for Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh and Dinesh Karthik. Not for Sourav Ganguly” 

Feb 20, 2009 “This is my last first-class game. I’m doing my own work, setting up some businesses. At some point, a commentary stint will also happen. Right now there’s the school coming up in Salt Lake.” 

Dec 18, 2008 “We in India make the mistake of thinking only good boys make good captains.” 

Nov 29, 2008 “I didn’t expect MS to ask me to captain the side for five overs. I was already switched off, so he woke me up. I didn’t know what was happening the first six-seven balls.” 

Nov 10, 2008 “It takes a lot of time and patience. I don’t know whether I have the patience.” 

Nov 10, 2008 “I dont know whether one duck made my career more dramatic. It was dramatic in any case.” 

Nov 10, 2008 “Sometimes when I bat, even now, when I feel a little loose, I think about him.” 

Nov 7, 2008 “I’ll always live with the memory that I’ve taken Indian cricket forward as a captain. That will be my biggest memory, rather than the 19-20 thousand runs I’ve scored at the international level.” 

Nov 6, 2008 “I am more than 36-and-a-half years old and I have played more than 100 Test matches so I find it hard to look at the newspapers to find out whether I am in the team or not.” 

Nov 5, 2008 “To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!” 

Oct 18, 2008 “That was in 2006 when England were on tour here. I was called to be a part of the squad but in reality I was merely a standby practising with the team. I did not play a single match in that six-match series.” 

Oct 16, 2008 “I will definitely answer him after the series is over. He will get more than what he has asked for.” 

Oct 10, 2008 “By saying all these things, he has not helped himself and I don’t think he has helped the harmony in the dressing room. All that he had to say, he could have said that after the series was over.” 

Oct 10, 2008 “There are some who have changed their hairstyle more than they have scored for India.” 

Oct 9, 2008 “I was tired of being humiliated again and again. I don’t want to play cricket at the mercy of others.” 

Oct 8, 2008 “It came as a surprise as he told us in the dressing room that he was quitting. It was towards the end of practice and I was surprised. I could not even talk to him since he had to rush to the press conference.” 

Oct 8, 2008 “We haven’t spoken about it at all. It doesn’t impact on us at all. Whatever Sourav’s decision was, it’s none of our business really.” 

Oct 8, 2008 “Probably people didn’t like my face.” 

“Just one last thing, lads.” 

Oct 7, 2008 “I am Shah Rukh Khan, not BCCI.” 

Oct 5, 2008 “…waiting for such a verdict is like three minutes in the ICU. The heart misses so many beats…” 

Aug 15, 2008 “Fitness is a relative term. I mean to say that it does not necessarily mean that one who runs hard and lifts weights is fit. Cricketing fitness is different. So if you can perform, it means you are fit.” 

Jul 19, 2008 “I hope the national selectors were watching.” 

May 8, 2008 “In a country where there is such a huge debate on young (read youth) and experience it feels great to get an award with the word ‘young’ before it.” 

Mar 29, 2008 “John’s last visit to Kolkata was not very memorable. But we assure you this time you’ll leave with happy memories.” 

Mar 16, 2008 “As a cricketer, I feel that if the field umpires get a bit of help in the matter of the front foot no ball from the technology as they have in tennis, that they can concentrate and look only towards the batsman and that can reduce mistakes, because things happen fast in the cricket field.” 

Feb 13, 2008 “I think it has affected journalists more than it has us.” 

Jan 20, 2008 “I was waiting for him to break my record [227], but the power went off when he was on 225. I missed the moment.” 

Dec 16, 2007 “The only time I took a ride in an open bus was in Belfast, earlier in the summer. But it was so cold that I had to quickly take shelter in the covered deck.” 

Oct 1, 2007 “I’ve been practising hard. I’m looking forward to the Test series in the Caribbean. Let’s see.” 

May 28, 2006 “They all want my son to retire but Sourav will not retire till his death.” 

May 21, 2006 “Every demagogue in town has vented his spleen. Every Tom, Dick and Soumitra has voiced an opinion.” 

Dec 17, 2005 “I like Sourav’s arrogance. I don’t like him begging for a place. He should stand tall and perform consistently to get back into the team. That is the Sourav Ganguly I know.” 

Nov 21, 2005 “I told my boys that I have kept my record of losing finals intact.” 

Nov 15, 2005 “Don’t stand under the sun waiting for me. I am not going to say anything.” 

Oct 31, 2005 “He turned up as if he was royalty. It was like having Prince Charles on your side … There were rumours he was asking people to carry his coffin for him, although he never asked me.” 

Sep 30, 2005 “Everybody says John Wright did a good job, but what exactly did he do? He could not rectify Sourav Ganguly’s short-pitched delivery problem for five years.” 

May 18, 2005 “Absolute crap. The only thing it shows is India’s power at the ICC table.” 

“Medical investigations have revealed intra-articular pathology of the right hip joint noted by increased synovial fluid accumulation.” 

Nov 5, 2004 “If somebody still harboured hopes, Billy Bowden – who should be in a circus and not the Elite umpires’ panel – ended that with an executioner’s job on Virender Sehwag.” 

Oct 9, 2004 “He’s no Javed Miandad … We had already won on the penultimate ball.” 

Jul 28, 2004 “We will try and pull the chain and stop the train midway” 

Mar 4, 2004 “As the assault gathered momentum, still more men were despatched in a vain attempt to stem the flow. Nothing changed. Sourav Ganguly and his threadbare attack died the death of a thousand cuts.”

Dec 13, 2003 “Blood came out like water as soon as the gauze was removed … This is life.” 

Oct 19, 2003