Cricket Match Quotes

• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

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  Hugh Jackman

  Sports   Fun   Dad  

  2208

• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

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  Imran Khan

  Cricket Match   Games   Entrepreneur  

  2249

• Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

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  Robert Mugabe

  Sports   Cricket Match   Play  

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

  1967

• Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

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  George Mikes

  Sports   Thinking   Cricket Match  

  1946 How to be an Alien.

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• Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.

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  Graeme Simsion

  Cricket Match   People   May  

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

  2055

• Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

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  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful   School   Games  

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.303, Random House

  5073

• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

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  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer   Struggle   Cricket Match  

  4586

• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

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  Charles Dickens

  Funny   Running   Humorous  

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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• 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.

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  Harold Pinter

  Sex   Thinking   Cricket Match  

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