Quotes Log - Feb. 11 - Feb. 17

"It just requires a few deliveries for a bloke like Tendulkar to get into the groove and we have played him enough in the past to know what a great player he is. We are most worried about him." Ricky Ponting, ahead of the Australia-India clash
Source: Mid-Day, India

"It has been a difficult period of my life and again I can only apologise. I don't want to be branded a racist and those people who know me know I'm not. All I can say is that it won't happen again, I can promise you that." Darren Lehmann
Source: The Star, South Africa

"Everybody is here to win the cup, Kenya included. Our main aim was to try and get into the Super Six and that is still our aim." Kenyan captain Steve Tikolo, after his side's drubbing by South Africa
Source: Allafrica.com

"I still can't believe that we qualified. In Guyana, I had to go on five or six television programs just to let people know where Canada stood as a cricket nation because nobody could believe that Canada made the World Cup." Canadian cricketer Nicholas Degroot
Source: The Globe and Mail, Canada

"For us, things are clear on the Zimbabwe issue: unless we are told otherwise by the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) or the International Cricket Council (ICC), we are expecting to go to Bulawayo for our match and that is all there is to it." Matthew Hayden
Source: The Daily Telegraph, UK

"I have never taken any performance-enhancing drugs or intend to do so. I am sorry this had to happen, but I wish the team all the best. I was shocked because I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs. I am proud to be in the shape I'm now but that's nothing to do with drugs. It's all due to my own hard work." Shane Warne, in a press conference, after pulling out of the World Cup following a positive drug test
Source: Rediff.com