Cricket Quotes - Page 6

• Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

  G. H. Hardy

  Games, Sides, Where You Are

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others

  Andy Flower

  Two, World, Kind

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• There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

  Peter Roebuck

  Men, Sight, Serious Man

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• It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect... It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless.

  Bill Bryson

  Sports, Player, Names

  "In a Sunburned Country". Book by Bill Bryson, June 18, 2000.

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• Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Girlfriend, Sorry, Guy

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• It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Lifetime, Doubtful, Coverage

  "RIP CMJ: Cricket mourns Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the commentator who made Test matches special" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2013.

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• I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

  Bill Bryson

  I Can

  Interview with Jon Bernstein, www.newstatesman.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.

  Howard Evans

  Believe, Garden, Voice

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• I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

  Keith Miller

  Arses, Pressure, Playing Cricket

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• Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

  Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

  Golf, Games

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• Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.

  Libba Bray

  Night, Symphony, Comforting

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Color, Sitting

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.

  Shahid Afridi

  Brother, Passion, School

  Source: www.vogueamour.com

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• Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

  Len Hutton

  Men, Trying, Absurd

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

  Charlie Brooker

  Brother, Silly, Holiday

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

  Daniel Quinn

  Views, Crow, Special

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  Andre Maurois

  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the banning of the South African cricket tour which had been scheduled - that was something that I sorted out with Sir Donald Bradman. That was interesting.

  Bob Hawke

  Fighting, Interesting, President

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

  Anne, Queen of Great Britain

  Games, Illegal, Manly

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• India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Brian Lara

  Ms Dhoni, India, Very Good

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• Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.

  Allan Donald

  Army, World, Veteran

  "45 Quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in Honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th Birthday" by Tarun Mittal, yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Hurt, Play, People

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• Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Long, Broken, Looks

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