Cricket Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

  Andrew Bird

  Wind, Bird, Pieces

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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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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• India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Brian Lara

  Ms Dhoni, India, Very Good

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

  Len Hutton

  Men, Trying, Absurd

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• To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

  Andrew Symonds

  Men, Want, He Man

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Moon, Night, Men

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Crazy, Chocolate, Doe

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Nice, Character, Player

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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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• 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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• What's down below is in the past
  Like last night's crickets, far below.

  Wallace Stevens

  Past, Night, Lasts

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.80, Knopf

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• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Color, Sitting

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

  Anne, Queen of Great Britain

  Games, Illegal, Manly

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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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• Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.

  Rahul Dravid

  Years, People, Tendulkar

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• I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Thinking, Games, Challenges

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• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Hurt, Play, People

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• Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Long, Broken, Looks

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• Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.

  Tony Blackburn

  Sports, School, Trying

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

  Robin Wright

  Brother, Memories, Texas

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