Cricket Quotes - Page 17

• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

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• England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.

  Michael Clarke

  Team, Winning, Games

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• Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Comfortable

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

  Muttiah Muralitharan

  Fall, Opportunity, Years

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• I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Senior, Struggle, Home

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• Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

  Robert Hunter

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

  Robert R. McCammon

  Night, Rose, Bird

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• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  Cliff Martinez

  Bird, Owl, Musician

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• It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

  Suresh Raina

  Running, Play, Feelings

  Source: www.sportskeeda.com

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• Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Player, Thinking, Sri Lanka

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• By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Struggle, School, Men

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• We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

  Shane Warne

  Sports, Thinking, Watches

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. July 31, 2009.

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• The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

  Shane Warne

  Play, People, Want

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. July 31, 2009.

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• The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

  Shane Warne

  Believe, Needs, Stuff

  "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

  Bill Bryson

  Player, Hands, Games

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• She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Rain, Hammers, Hook

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1973). “On the Banks of Plum Creek”, Turtleback

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• There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Sweet, Sacrifice

  Louisa May Alcott (1993). “Little Women”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Running, Song

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• A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

  Tim Minchin

  Thinking, Ideas, Bats

  "Have a heart". "The Science Show", www.abc.net.au. October 12, 2013.

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• The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Summer, Sadness

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• The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

  Charles Simic

  Heart, Mirrors, Black

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Rahul Dravid

  Elements, Radio, Jam

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• Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

  Richie Benaud

  Team, Hero, Winning

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

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