Cricket Quotes
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- “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
- Robin Williams - “Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen”
- Robert Mugabe - “It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures”
- Oscar Wilde - “Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game”
- George Mikes - “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”
- Harold Pinter - “Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.”
- George Bernard Shaw - “Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed”
- John Fowles - “Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!”
- John Milton - “Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
- Patrick Leigh Fermor - “When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.”
- Gen Maxwell D. Taylor - “The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world…This is how it has worked for me”
- Sourav Ganguly
