Cricket Match Quotes

• 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

  Sports, Play, Zimbabwe

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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

  Imran Khan

  Games, Entrepreneur, India

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• Muchos continentales piensan que la vida es un juego; los ingleses piensan que el críquet es un juego.

  George Mikes

  Deportes, Pensamiento, Juegos

  1946 How to be an Alien.

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Sex, Thinking, Earth

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Lazy

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• Profesor Tillman. La mayoría de los que estamos aquí no somos científicos, así que puede que necesite ser un poco menos técnico'. Este tipo de cosas son increíblemente molestas. La gente puede decirte las supuestas características de un Géminis o un Tauro y se pasaría cinco días viendo un partido de cricket, pero no encuentra el interés o el tiempo para aprender lo básico de lo que ellos, como humanos, están hechos.

  Graeme Simsion

  People, May, Littles

  Graeme Simsion (2014). "El proyecto Rosie: A Novel", p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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• 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.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, School, Games

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

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

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

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