Cricket Quotes - Page 3

• A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.

  Ranjitsinhji

  Running, Bowling, Cricket Funny

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• A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

  Neville Cardus

  Telling The Truth, Should, Cricket Funny

  Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

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• One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

  Matthew Hayden

  Games, Play, Long

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

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• In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

  Ian Peebles

  Games, Bowlers, Accord

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• I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

  Greg Chappell

  Long, Enough, I Can

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• To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

  Shane Warne

  Simple, Games, Play

  "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

  W. G. Grace

  Eye, Play, Luck

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• Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Sports, Rain, Heaven

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

  Usain Bolt

  Track, Fields, Firsts

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

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• England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

  Robert Benchley

  Baseball, England And America, Games

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• If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

  Ian Botham

  Country, Children, Alcohol

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• To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sports, Thinking, Cash

  1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.

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• Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

  Andy Pick

  Class, Play, Careers

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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• The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Trying, Eras, Gone

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• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Sadness, Pride

  "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

  Fred Trueman

  Two, Cricket Funny, Wit

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• Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

  Neville Cardus

  Heart, Games, Lovely

  "Good Days". Book by Neville Cardus, 1934.

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Giving Up, Play, Politician

  "Cricket pitch to parliament: Sachin Tendulkar's political move" by Harmeet Shah Singh, www.cnn.com. May 02, 2012.

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• I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

  Ricky Ponting

  Moving, Golf, Swings

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

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• It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

  Denis Norden

  Baseball, Wife, Fans

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• I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Balls, Bowls

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• Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

  John Arlott

  Afl, Done, Bills

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• A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

  W. G. Grace

  Effort, Healthy, Fellowship

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