Cricket Quotes - Page 12

• I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name.

  Vijender Singh

  Stars, Names, Years

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• I love England and I love cricket.

  Kevin Pietersen

  England

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

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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• Dravid Could play attacking cricket like me but i could never play like him

  Chris Gayle

  Play, Dravid, Attacking

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• I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6

  Chris Gayle

  Player, Self, Different

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Justice, World

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• There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  President, Boards, Puppets

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• It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

  Isaac Marion

  Eerie, Civilization, Cities

  Isaac Marion (2013). “The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies”, p.22, Random House

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• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  Virender Sehwag

  Retirement, Jobs, Player

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• I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

  Miranda Kerr

  Listening, Want, Embrace

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• I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Writing, Men, Happy Man

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• Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

  Richie Benaud

  Way, Marvellous, Australian

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• 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?

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Watches, Days Off

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• Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

  Richie Benaud

  Summer, Holiday, Australia

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• The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

  Peter O'Toole

  Teaching, Life Is

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• I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

  Sean Astin

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

  Joseph O'Neill

  America, Want, Preoccupation

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• I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Fields, Discussing

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• A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

  James M. Barrie

  Wife, Loving Wife

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• I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.

  Kapil Dev

  Country, Hate, Games

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• I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Dhoni, India, Helping

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• Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

  Preity Zinta

  Two, India, Two Things

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• Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

  Stephen Fry

  Football, Team, Winning

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