Cricket Quotes - Page 16

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

Saina Nehwal

Badminton, Glamorous

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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Bertrand Russell

Personality, Soul, Brain

Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Gautama Buddha

Mosquitoes, Ants, Ends

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The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.

Arthur Lynch

Education, Men, Winning

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Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

Louis Agassiz

Teaching, Science, House

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I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.

Sanath Jayasuriya

Team, Government, Pakistan

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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

Donald Bradman

Sports, Hockey, Thinking

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I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket

Sania Mirza

Epic, Player, Ms Dhoni

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Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

Frank Bruno

Boxing, Wells, Happens

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Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

Ravi Shastri

Play, Dhoni, Has Beens

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I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

Tessa Jowell

Children, Play, Balls

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I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

Peter O'Toole

Teacher, Son, Years

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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

Charles Dickens

Heart, World

Charles Dickens (1873). “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home”, p.17

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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

G. M. Trevelyan

Summer, Children, Fun

"English Social History".

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

William Butler Yeats

Peace, Morning, Wings

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 1 (1893)

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In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Neville Cardus

Baseball, Average, Law

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There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

Andrew Flintoff

Play, Way, Pressure

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The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

Ian Botham

Play, Bigs, County

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I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

Kevin Pietersen

Past, Years, Tests

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Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

Might, Lasts, States

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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

Gagan Narang

Sports, Jobs, Eggs

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Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Football, Sloth, Misery

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It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

John Cowper Powys

Giving, Fields, Bitter

Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

Simon Barnes

Sports, Team, Two

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There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

Kevin Pietersen

Needs, Tests, Pressure

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