11 Quotes by Donald Bradman

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn’t make more runs than I did, I don’t know.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

When you play test cricket, you don’t give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

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

Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out.