58 Quotes by Richie Benaud

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.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

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’.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn’t!

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don’t leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

Gatting at fine leg – that’s a contradiction in terms.

The slow-motion replay doesn’t show how fast the ball was really travelling.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife’s hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.