Cricket Quotes - Page 5

• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  Ted Dexter

  Grind, Endless

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Land, Village, Spread

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Games, Coaching

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• Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

  Robert Mugabe

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

  Ian Botham

  Soccer, Sports, Growing Up

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  Harold Larwood

  Real, Dark, Tunnels

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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  Harold Pinter

  Sex, Thinking, Cricket Match

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• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Men, India, Blame

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• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

  Frank Woolley

  Way, Serious, Educated

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• Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

  Tony Greig

  Thinking, Different, Would Be

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• When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Focus, Today, Months

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• I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Mystery

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• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Process, Depends

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• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Father, Games, Australia

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• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  Rahul Dravid

  People, Lucky, Publicity

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• Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

  Richard Lloyd

  Team, Games, Inspire

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• It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Years, Done, Imagine

  "Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement" By Paul Gittings, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

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• And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Veils, Dropping

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

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• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

  Damian Lewis

  Kids, Mouths, Balls

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• Looking for a cricket quote for inspiration? Or, maybe a cricket quote to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotations.

  John Arlott

  Inspiration, Laughing, Checks

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• Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

  Neville Cardus

  Constitution, Made, British

  1945 English Cricket.

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• There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

  Oliver Reed

  Lunch, Differences, World

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

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• A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

  Prince Philip

  Gun, Hands, Bats

  "Prince Philip's Gun Views Stir Furor" by William D. Montalbano, articles.latimes.com. December 20, 1996.

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