Top 35 Shane Warne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never give up; just absolutely never give up.”

— Shane Warne

2. “You can’t afford to live your life with regrets.”

— Shane Warne

3. “I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.”

— Shane Warne

4. “Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn’t.”

— Shane Warne

5. “When I turned 36 I realised – the likelihood is that in four years time I’ll be 40.”

— Shane Warne

6. “To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.”

— Shane Warne

7. “I’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.”

— Shane Warne

8. “Rahul Dravid being known as ‘The Wall’ is pretty much spot on. ‘The fortress’ could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.”

— Shane Warne

9. “I am no dummy, mate, that’s for sure.”

— Shane Warne

10. “The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don’t worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it’s not the same ball.”

— Shane Warne

11. “Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.”

— Shane Warne

12. “My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that’s why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.”

— Shane Warne

13. “The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.”

— Shane Warne

14. “It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.”

— Shane Warne

15. “I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.”

— Shane Warne

16. “I’m proud of what I’ve achieved in cricket, as once I didn’t think I was good enough.”

— Shane Warne

17. “Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt – daylight second, Brian Lara third.”

— Shane Warne

18. “I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.”

— Shane Warne

19. “The IPL is just pure, intense. You don’t need all the other stuff. I don’t believe in coaches in international cricket.”

— Shane Warne

20. “With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That’s why they’re playing first class cricket. It’s just a different attitude.”

— Shane Warne

21. “With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.”

— Shane Warne

22. “You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer.”

— Shane Warne

23. “We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.”

— Shane Warne

24. “In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock’n’rolling.”

— Shane Warne

25. “All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.”

— Shane Warne

26. “I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn’t understand what reality is any more.”

— Shane Warne

27. “Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I’d get.”

— Shane Warne

28. “I’m fitter than I’ve ever been, I’m actually very, very healthy and I’m happy.”

— Shane Warne

29. “The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.”

— Shane Warne

30. “I also think there’s too many players who say the same boring answers, they don’t even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I’d like them to be honest.”

— Shane Warne

31. “The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.”

— Shane Warne

32. “I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon’s knife or had a facelift.”

— Shane Warne

33. “I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.”

— Shane Warne

34. “Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to get bowling partnerships, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.”

— Shane Warne

35. “I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.”

— Shane Warne

36. “There are no secrets about England – they are searching for positives.”

— Shane Warne

37. “With Australians we’re saying we’re going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.”

— Shane Warne

38. “Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I’ve ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.”

— Shane Warne

39. “We played well in Kenya. We didn’t lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don’t need to change much from that for this tournament.”

— Shane Warne