Cricket Quotes

• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

  Spiritual, Men, Opposites

  "The path of Khan". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

  Frank Woolley

  Time, Great Day, Spares

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• Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

  Donald Bradman

  Reading, Believe, Two

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• If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Peasants, Has Beens, Ifs

  G. M. Trevelyan (1944). “English Social History”

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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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• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Mystery

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• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Father, Games, Australia

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• When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Focus, Today, Months

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• Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

  Edmund Blunden

  Summer, Play, Sun

  Edmund Blunden (1957). “Poems of many years”

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• Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

  Tony Greig

  Thinking, Different, Would Be

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• In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

  Frank Woolley

  Way, Serious, Educated

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• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Process, Depends

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• There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Zero, Thinking, Next Day

  "I have learnt a lot about life from cricket". S. Dinakar, "Sport Star", Volume 24, No. 38, September 22, 2001.

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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  Harold Pinter

  Sex, Thinking, Cricket Match

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• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

  Ian Botham

  Soccer, Sports, Growing Up

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• Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  Harold Larwood

  Real, Dark, Tunnels

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Games, Coaching

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• I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

  Rahul Dravid

  Sports, Perseverance, Failure

  "Have failed at times, but never stopped trying: Rahul Dravid". archive.indianexpress.com. March 10, 2012.

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• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Men, India, Blame

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Land, Village, Spread

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  Ted Dexter

  Grind, Endless

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• Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

  Robert Mugabe

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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