“ When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war. ”
- Maxwell D. Taylor- Copy
- 672
“ Cricket has lost a lot of spectators in the wake of the match-fixing scandal, and it must ensure it does not lose more because some official is waiting for the conditions to be perfect. ”
- Sunil Gavaskar- Copy
- 4K
“ Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.8K
“ He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ”
- Kenny Cunningham- Copy
- 480
“ I am looking forward to watching the United States compete in the curling and ice hockey events. Curling is a very interesting sport because it's like shuffleboard on ice. ”
- Adam West- Copy
- 3K
“ The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ”
- Tiger Woods- Copy
- 2.6K
“ This is going to be a great test for the Cowboys, because the Chargers are a good team again. ”
- Troy Aikman- Copy
- 167
“ Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada. ”
- Steve Nash- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. ”
- Debbie Peterson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I don't think it should be too bad. I've seen back home in cricket, you have the third umpire for run-outs, stuff like that. It all happens pretty quickly. ”
- Lleyton Hewitt- Copy
- 1.8K
“ He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
- 947
“ For Indian cricket, I am always ready to assist in whatever way I can. ”
- Sunil Gavaskar- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Andrew has played a lot of cricket lately at a high intensity so it didn't seem necessary to rush him into a game only two days after he has arrived in Melbourne. ”
- Sunil Gavaskar- Copy
- 3K
“ We've got a lot of team chemistry now. A lot of guys are playing to their potential. Like a great man always said, 'Better late than never.' I'm glad we're doing it now. ”
- Eric Williams- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
- 2.5K
“ How earthy old people become — moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. ”
- Martha Washington- Copy
- 941
“ 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. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
- 3.3K
“ My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ”
- Desmond Llewelyn- Copy
- 2.3K
“ John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. ”
- Clifford Longley- Copy
- 595
“ Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her. ”
- James Whitcomb Riley- Copy
- 1.5K
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