Cricket Quotes - Page 11

• My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Life, Wind, Magic

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• DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

  Simon Schama

  Diy, Study, Lifetime

  "Simon Schama: 'I'm the inevitable old codger on the dancefloor'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fun, Heart, Crow

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.516, Harvard University Press

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• I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

  Glenn Turner

  Sports, Opportunity, Play

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• Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, 'That's enough. Stop now.

  Jenny Downham

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.307, Random House

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• The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Night, Misunderstood

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• Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Wall, Butterfly

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• It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

  Libba Bray

  Sports, Gossip, London

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are my foundation, they are my family. I will play my cricket for them. Their spirit is the true spirit of cricket. With me are all my people. I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Buddhist, Race, Ethnicity

  "The Spin's cricket moments of 2011" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Love, Justice, Faces

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.357, Indiana University Press

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• One cricket said to another -
  come, let us be ridiculous, and say love!
  love love love love love
  let us be absurd, woman, and say hate!
  hate hate hate hate hate
  and then let us be angelic
  and say nothing.

  Conrad Aiken

  Love, Hate, Ridiculous

  Conrad Aiken (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters!

  Michael Vaughan

  Epic, Men, Ms Dhoni

  Michael Vaughan @MichaelVaughan, twitter.com. February 24, 2013.

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• I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery.

  Jonathan Trott

  Recovery, Past, Knowing

  "How hard has depression hit cricket?" by Mark Rice-Oxley, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Well, all cricket invites attention.

  Nita Ambani

  Attention, Wells, Invites

  "I feel sorry for Lalit Modi: Nita Ambani". NDTV interview, www.ndtv.com. April 28, 2010.

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• And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mean, Looks, Sitting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

  Satya Nadella

  Team, Thinking, Careers

  "10 things to know: Satya Nadella" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

  Budd Schulberg

  Country, Nervous

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• There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sight, Bats, Watches

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• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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• And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.

  Stephanie

  Stars, Bells, Galaxy

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• I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

  Waqar Younis

  Team, Play, Australia

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• You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

  Harbhajan Singh

  One Day, Different, Roles

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• Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

  Rahul Dravid

  Running, Team, Grandchildren

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• Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders

  Virat Kohli

  Years, Burden, Tendulkar

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• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

  Harold Larwood

  Australia, Would Be, Deaf

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