Cricket Quotes - Page 13

• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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• And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mean, Looks, Sitting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.

  Jason Mraz

  Rain, Guitar, Bird

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

  Suresh Raina

  Skills, Levels, Improving Yourself

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• My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.

  Suresh Raina

  Jobs, Thank God, Given

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• Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Fall, Snow

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

  Leonard Cohen

  Silence, Deeper

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.34, Random House

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• I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

  Octavio Paz

  Stars, Giants, Phrases

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Dust, Play

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• The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Character, Games

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• O cricket from your cherry cry
  No one would ever guess
  How quickly you must die.

  Matsuo Basho

  Garden, Cry, Insects

  Bash? Matsuo, Basho, Asataro Miyamori (2002). “Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Running, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Mistake, Perfect, Important

  Interview With Kavya Seneviratne, www.sundaytimes.lk.

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• I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Ms Dhoni, World, Captains

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• Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

  Virender Sehwag

  Sports, Role Models, Bats

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• Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

  Katie Hopkins

  Ebola, Bombs, Offensive

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2014

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• Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

  Kofi Annan

  World, Dinner, Politician

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• I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

  Preity Zinta

  Careers, Bollywood, Guarantees

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