Cricket Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

  G. H. Hardy

  Games, Sides, Where You Are

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

  Bill Bryson

  I Can

  Interview with Jon Bernstein, www.newstatesman.com. October 25, 2010.

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• It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect... It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless.

  Bill Bryson

  Sports, Player, Names

  "In a Sunburned Country". Book by Bill Bryson, June 18, 2000.

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• Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Girlfriend, Sorry, Guy

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• It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Lifetime, Doubtful, Coverage

  "RIP CMJ: Cricket mourns Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the commentator who made Test matches special" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2013.

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• I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.

  Howard Evans

  Believe, Garden, Voice

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• There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

  Peter Roebuck

  Men, Sight, Serious Man

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• I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

  Keith Miller

  Arses, Pressure, Playing Cricket

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• Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

  Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

  Golf, Games

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• Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.

  Libba Bray

  Night, Symphony, Comforting

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

  Hansie Cronje

  Sports, Competition, Fields

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• I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

  Tom Jones

  Play, Voice, Rugby

  "My Exclusive Interview with Sir Tom Jones, in Which I Fail to Learn How to Be More Like Tom Jones". Interview with Tony Sachs, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2009.

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, Done, Records

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• In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

  Charlie Brooker

  Brother, Silly, Holiday

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  Andre Maurois

  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

  Len Hutton

  Men, Trying, Absurd

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• The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Talking, Differences

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

  Glenn Turner

  Team, Games, Interesting

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• From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

  Daniel Quinn

  Views, Crow, Special

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• Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

  C. L. R. James

  Ballet, Theatre, Opera

  "Beyond a Boundary". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.

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• Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, School, India

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• The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

  David McCord

  Life, Atoms, Gone

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