239 Quotes About Cricket
- Author Amit Ray
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Enlightenment is playing every ball of life with perfection, sincerity and love without perturb by the blame or praise of the world.
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- Author Suresh Menon - The Best of Indian Sports Writing
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Tendulkar's genius is of an order that the average player cannot comprehend. Dravid's greatness is not just comprehensible, it is reassuring
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- Author Suresh Menon - The Best of Indian Sports Writing
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He(Rahul Dravid) is the intelligent man's guide to what a sportsman ought to be - modest, dependable, well-educated, with the gift of grace under pressure and a perspective that is adult. He is the comfort for those who know they cannot be Tendulkar
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- Author Harsha Bhogle
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And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
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- Author Kamila Shamsie
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Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
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- Author Gideon Haigh
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No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
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- Author Telford Vice
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If a cigarette butt in the bottom of a beer bottle had a voice it would be the voice of Phil Tufnell.
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- Author Andrew Strauss
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I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.
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- Author Emma Richler
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Hell! His beard grows fast as blazes, like a damp wicket in springtime sun, green, and Rachel's skin is so fine, his bristles can score her red the way a new ball marks a bat, English alum on English unbleached willow, finest quality, special selection, Rachel-grade. Zach, my man, you have cricket on the brain! Thomas has asked him to play on Sunday. Bring Rachel, he said. Thomas 'All Souls' Aubry, gentleman, corinthian at heart, and half French yet more English than a true-born.
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