Cricket Quotes

363 quotes by 216 authors

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. — Usain Bolt
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy… — Ian Botham
I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. — Danny Boyle
I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. — Bill Bryson
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets… — Clinton Scollard
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get… — Katharine Whitehorn
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. — Alec Douglas-Home
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde
Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death. — Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. — Robert Benchley
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to… — Donald Bradman
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. — Steve Waugh
I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to… — Howard Evans
The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into… — Arthur Hopcraft
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens… — Louis Agassiz

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