Cricket Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Sourav has got a huge role to play in Indian cricket and its success. I hope certainly that he gets back in there because he is a hell of a good player and he still has got too much to offer to Indian cricket.

  Allan Donald

  Player, Roles, Too Much

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• Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Play, Devil, Born

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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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• Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

  Donald Bradman

  Games, Noble, Development

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

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• I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

  Felicity Jones

  Running, Cousin, Brother

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.

  Garfield Sobers

  Tendulkar, Cricketers

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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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• It is far more than a game, this cricket.

  Neville Cardus

  Games

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Motivational, Team, Player

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• Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

  Ian Chappell

  Harder

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• If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.

  Shahid Afridi

  Army, Play, International

  Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com

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• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  Neville Cardus

  Games, Cant

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

  Neville Cardus

  Law, Orderliness, Compromise

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

  Franny Armstrong

  Country, Wind, Silence

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• In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

  Allan Donald

  Years, Credit, Engagement

  "Sachin Tendulkar: Quotable Quotes on the Batting Legend". www.khaleejtimes.com. November 12, 2013.

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• May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

  Donald Bradman

  Wings, World, May

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• Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

  Garfield Sobers

  Games, Great Love, Followers

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• No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Country, Games, Gone

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• The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

  Neville Cardus

  Genius, Elements

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Talking, Years, Anticipation

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• I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!

  Donald Bradman

  Player, Two, Wife

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