Cricket Quotes - Page 18

• If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.

  Brian Lara

  Son, Play, Bats

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• A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Eye, Dark

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.106, Penguin

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• What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

  Russell Brand

  Voice, Bird, Littles

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• Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

  Douglas Jardine

  Sports, Art, Battle

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• Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

  Israel Houghton

  Hater, Deep Thought, Noise

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• You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.

  Matthew Hayden

  Funny, Wisdom, Dog

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• Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.

  M. L. Stedman

  Home, Night, Years

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• I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

  John Wright

  Advice, Tendulkar, Gentle

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Player, Thinking, Sri Lanka

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• I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Senior, Struggle, Home

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• Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

  Robert Hunter

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

  Robert R. McCammon

  Night, Rose, Bird

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• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  Cliff Martinez

  Bird, Owl, Musician

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• The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has the same desire to do well for India in any international match. I tell you what, this man is a legend.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Men, Games, Long

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• Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Hero, Mind

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• He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Passion, Government, Names

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• A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

  Tim Minchin

  Thinking, Ideas, Bats

  "Have a heart". "The Science Show", www.abc.net.au. October 12, 2013.

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• The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Summer, Sadness

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• The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

  Charles Simic

  Heart, Mirrors, Black

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

  Richie Benaud

  Team, Hero, Winning

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

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• In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

  Rahul Dravid

  Play, Careers, Schedules

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• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Years, Class

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• I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

  Neil Kinnock

  Summer, Football, Winter

  1980 In The Times, 28 Jul.

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• Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

  Max Walker

  Football, Clubs, Facts

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

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