Cricket Quotes - Page 14

• I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Running, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• We have started calling him grandfather.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Grandfather, Calling

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• The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

  Michael Atherton

  Team, Archives, Pages

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• Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

  Avery Sunshine

  Thinking, Talking, Language Barriers

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spirit, Efficiency, Mere

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• Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Eye, Cutting

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.321, A&C Black

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• The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

  Sania Mirza

  Sports, Gentleman, Earth

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• The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) Translated by William S. Merwin

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kings, Boys, Voice

  Federico Garcia Lorca, “The Little Mute Boy”

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• Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Attention, Littles, Lava

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• Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

  Gene Wolfe

  Clever, Thinking, Sight

  Gene Wolfe (1989). “Soldier of Arete”, p.362, Macmillan

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• Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

  Christopher Moore

  Eight, Phones, Blue

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.

  W. G. Grace

  Believe, Hands, Events

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• I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

  Octavio Paz

  Stars, Giants, Phrases

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• Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Fall, Snow

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.

  Suresh Raina

  Jobs, Thank God, Given

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• Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

  Donald Bradman

  Light, Australia, Tests

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• At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

  Suresh Raina

  Skills, Levels, Improving Yourself

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• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

  Barry Richards

  Player, Important, Facts

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• He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

  Waqar Younis

  Play, Walking Sticks, Legs

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• The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

  Glenn McGrath

  Humility, Expectations, Joy

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• Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mind

  Louisa May Alcott, Barbara Steadman (1997). “Little Women Coloring Book”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Team, Games, Giving

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• Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.

  Gary Kirsten

  Role Models, Roles, Mets

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• Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Children, Sleep

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.165, A&C Black

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