Commentators Quotes

• This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

  Ted Walsh

  Sports, Mother, Horse

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• The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Journey, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

  Richie Benaud

  Brain, Add, Gears

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

  Harry Carpenter

  Nice, Kissing, Oxford

  "Oxford cut early dash to set Light Blues up for the chop", www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.

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• For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

  John Motson

  Football, Black And White, Yellow

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  Richie Benaud

  Inspirational Sports, Humanity, Grass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.

  George Hamilton

  Football, Brother, Courses

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• Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.

  Richie Benaud

  Media, Play, Each Day

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Skills, Luck

  Richie Benaud (2015). “Remembering Richie”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

  David Coleman

  Silly, Years, Funny Sports

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• The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

  Barry Davies

  Football, Benches, Substitutes

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• He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Balls, Legs

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Ideas, Interesting, Care

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• From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

  Gerald Sinstadt

  Football, Moments, Pendulums

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• I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny, Humorous, Political

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Army, Entrepreneur, Society

  "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World". Book by Andrew Breitbart, 2011.

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• We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

  Michael Hudson

  Inspirational, Moving On, Moving Forward

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• Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

  Dave Niehaus

  Funny, Baseball, Food

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• This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

  Joe Rogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2013

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

  Jim Rogers

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.58, Crown Business

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