Quotes by Dale Steyn - Page 2

I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.
Dale Steyn /
Bothered
Best World Never
South African
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I come across as quite aggressive and quite in people's faces and everything like that, but I know where to draw the line.
Dale Steyn /
Aggressive
Faces
Where People Know
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For me, I need to bowl lots of overs in order to start getting back into form - much like a batsman needs to hit a lot of balls.
Dale Steyn /
Bowl
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It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.
Dale Steyn /
Terrifying
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The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.
Dale Steyn /
Cricket
Relief
Retired
Shoulders
Anymore
Bowl
Test
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You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.
Dale Steyn /
Pace
Smart
Bowl
Street
Guys
Suppose
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Lord's is a special place. I used to love watching games there as a youngster and I've been fortunate enough to play a couple of games there.
Dale Steyn /
Special Place
Youngster
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It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.
Dale Steyn /
South Africa
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I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.
Dale Steyn /
Sportsmen
Whoever
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The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.
Dale Steyn /
Bowling
Pace
South Africa
Good Enough Will
Africa
Area
Ball
Cause
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Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.
Dale Steyn /
Jacques
Smith
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There's so much in favor of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on.
Dale Steyn /
Balls
Bats
Bigger
Fields
Favor
List
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It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!
Dale Steyn /
Opponent
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If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.
Dale Steyn /
Condition
Bowl
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That's a beautiful thing about India, they got such a big pool of players to call upon. If somebody gets injured, the replacements are generally pretty good.
Dale Steyn /
Injured
Pool
Beautiful Thing
Generally
Pretty Good
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When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.
Dale Steyn /
Classical
Technically
Jacques
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Generally I don't say too much on the field. However, I am a fast bowler and with that comes the responsibility of saying a word or two and getting in a guy's face.
Dale Steyn /
Bowler
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With my work schedule, it's difficult for me to spend quality time with my dogs. But whenever I'm home, I make it a point to spend as much time as possible with my dogs.
Dale Steyn /
Quality Time
Time Work Home
Dogs
Work Time Home
Schedule
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Every ball matters - if with the last ball the opposition need four to win, and you've gone for 96, can you get that out of your mind and bowl a dot ball and win the game?
Dale Steyn /
Your Mind Game
Ball
Bowl
Mind Your Game
Dot
Matters
Game Mind Win
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I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.
Dale Steyn /
Common
Fantastic
Jimmy
Anderson
Broad
Cook
Know More Who
Guys
Joe
Root
Stuart
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It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.
Dale Steyn /
World Class
Skill
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As long as that drive is still there to play at the highest level, to get batters out, fox them and outsmart them and that kind of stuff, if I can do that I'm going to continue to do that.
Dale Steyn /
Fox
Highest Level
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From the moment I became an established international cricketer I always had a strong feeling that I should be doing some 'good' while I had that profile, using it to try and make a difference.
Dale Steyn /
Profile
Strong Feeling
Established
Good Moment Always
Make A Difference
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When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.
Dale Steyn /
Ocean
Cricket
Streak
Disastrous
Waters
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As long as I've got that urge and that fight and fire inside of me I'll continue and records will come and records will be broken. But the day I don't feel that kind of stuff I'm happy to walk away.
Dale Steyn /
Broken
Fire
Records
Inside
Urge
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I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.
Dale Steyn /
Bounce
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In South Africa, you can get away sometimes because of the bounce. You may get away with full wide balls. In India, it does not bounce and finds the middle of the bat and goes flying to point or extra cover for four.
Dale Steyn /
Balls
Bounce
Flying
South Africa
Wide
Bat
Extra
Finds
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When I made my one-day debut for South Africa I met some of the Aussies for the first time. We lost the game and when I shook the hands of players I just wanted them to look me in the eye and acknowledge I had competed.
Dale Steyn /
Acknowledge
Debut
Eye
First Time
South Africa
Time Me Game
Africa
Time Game Me
Time Look Game
Met
Shook
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I'm lucky because not only do I have the chance to experience the thrill of winning, but I also get to bowl really fast. Those two things are the best feelings in the world, better than any drugs - not that I've tried any.
Dale Steyn /
Thrill
Bowl
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I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.
Dale Steyn /
Bowl
Learnt
Skill
Swing
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I think 'A' sides are extremely important, as close as you can get to international cricket. You are often playing against internationals from different countries and it definitely bridges the gap between our domestic game and international cricket.
Dale Steyn /
Bridges
Cricket
Different Countries
Sides
Domestic
Gap
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I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.
Dale Steyn /
Decent
Rate
Myself Always Look
Bowler
Myself Look Always
Runs
Spoken
Strike
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When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.
Dale Steyn /
Nelson
People Way Nothing
Mandela
Onto
Unites
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It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, play Big Bash. Unfortunately representing the Proteas for the bulk of my career over Christmas time we've always got Test matches on, the Boxing Day and New Year's Test matches. So I haven't been available.
Dale Steyn /
Bash
Representing
Time Christmas Always
Bulk
Matches
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There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.
Dale Steyn /
Afternoon
Boiling
Bowl
For The Day
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Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.
Dale Steyn /
Aggressive
Bounce
Doubt
Hurt
Shane
Physically
Heads
On And Off
Verbally
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