Cricket Quotes - page 9

Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined. (Lionel Tennyson)
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient. View quote
Bill Edrich
The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose. View quote
Jeffrey Bernard
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. He does not play cricket because it is a good game, but because it creates good citizens. He does not love motor-races for their own sake, but for the advantages they bring to the engineering firms of his country. And it is common knowledge that the devoted persons who conduct and regularly attend horse-races do not do so because they like it, but for the benefit of the breed of the English horse. View quote
A. P. Herbert
I have little interest in cricket. People are crazy about cricket and we feel happy when our country wins. The names of Hanif Mohammad, Imran Khan, Shoaib Akhtar all come to my mind once I think about cricket. These are legends of Pakistani cricket. 2. View quote
Rana Bhagwandas
It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is. View quote
Libba Bray
The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot. View quote
Thierry Henry
And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? View quote
Thierry Henry
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam. View quote
Rahul Dravid
I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day. (Rahul Dravid)
In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer. View quote
Rahul Dravid
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. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Cricket is no excuse for ignorance. View quote
Barry Perowne
Colly doing a good, no-frills, manful job for England here, just one from the over. He is to cricket what Jim Taggart is to detective work. View quote
Ben Dirs
Embarrassing cricket tales. When I was about 14, my school team played against a school called Langdon, somewhere or other in the wilds of East London. They batted first and racked up 180-3 off 20 overs. We got 13. My PE teacher called it the most humiliating day of his life. Years later, he got done for sex offences. I wonder what he thinks now. View quote
Ben Dirs
Before we were old enough to practise at the nets with the Burslem men, we played most of our cricket on waste land that had been trampled flat by the clogs and boots of generations of miners. View quote
Bernard Hollowood
I was brought up to believe that cricket is the most important activity in men's lives, the most important thread in the fabric of the cosmos. View quote
Bernard Hollowood
He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting had inspired any appreciable literature. View quote
Dal Stivens
Long ago I discovered that there was more to life than cricket, and more to cricket than runs and wickets. View quote
David Foot
Cricket as a passion is distinctly contagious. (David Frith)
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. View quote
Denis Norden
To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual. View quote
Digby Jephson
A game of cricket is at work from the first ball to the last in shaping an outline or design for itself. Sometimes the design degenerates into dullness and incompetence, but design there always is, and there is an interest even in the tracing of the course and impulse of its failures. View quote
Dudley Carew
The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket. View quote
Shane Warne