Cricket Quotes - Page 14

• 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'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

  Shane Warne

  Running, Thinking, Player

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• Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

  Shane Warne

  Player, Doubt, Daylight

  "Tendulkar is way ahead: Warne". www.thehindu.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the only way out. So I will keep playing.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Way, Enough

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• I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

  Viv Richards

  Thinking, Play, Perfect

  "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

  Wasim Akram

  Team, Winning, Player

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• To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

  Sourav Ganguly

  Player, Years, Lovely

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• With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

  Shane Warne

  Wind, Tendulkar, Brian

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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• Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

  Martina Navratilova

  Lessons, Devotion, Remarkable

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• We have started calling him grandfather.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Grandfather, Calling

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• The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

  Michael Atherton

  Team, Archives, Pages

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• The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

  Glenn McGrath

  Humility, Expectations, Joy

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• He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Team, Games, Giving

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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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• They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Baseball, Strong

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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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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• 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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