Cricket Quotes - Page 10

• India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  India, Prime, Ministers

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• Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

  Nasser Hussain

  Winning, Australia, Forgotten

  Source: uk.askmen.com

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• I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Thinking, Years, Achievement

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• Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

  Ian Botham

  Games, Ruins, Theorists

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

  Usain Bolt

  Football, Thinking, Would Be

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• Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Talking, Years, Anticipation

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• The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

  Bill Bryson

  Interesting, Looks, Endeavor

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• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  J. B. Priestley

  Understanding, One Day, Demand

  "The English". Book by J. B. Priestley, 1973.

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• Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Running, Stars

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• I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

  Barack Obama

  Country, Play, Watches

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• All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

  Matthew Hayden

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

  Shahid Afridi

  Intention, Retiring

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• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  Rahul Dravid

  Determination, Mistake, Thinking

  "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

  Shahid Afridi

  Shining, Bats, Balls

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• It is far more than a game, this cricket.

  Neville Cardus

  Games

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  Neville Cardus

  Games, Cant

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

  Andrew Strauss

  Play, Proud, Eras

  "Andrew Strauss retires from all forms of cricket - as it happened" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

  Neville Cardus

  Genius, Elements

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

  Piers Morgan

  Beach, Teenage, Son

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• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Government, Games

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• If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.

  Shahid Afridi

  Army, Play, International

  Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com

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• The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters!

  Michael Vaughan

  Epic, Men, Ms Dhoni

  Michael Vaughan @MichaelVaughan, twitter.com. February 24, 2013.

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