#cricket

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#before #breath #broke #cricket #had

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cricket #english #even #henry #john

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

#bad #certainly #created #cricket #earth

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others. ↗

— Ian Rush

#got #india #kids #look #need

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 it, be positive and try to win. ↗

— Ian Botham

#competing #cricket #enjoy #good #how

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#benefit #cricketers #depended #doing #faults

One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the "flow-through holes"; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#cricket #expansion #indian-premier-league #innovation #johnny-mathis

You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it. Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#basketball #cricket #fighter #happiness #hard-work

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

The crickets sounded like maybe in the trees. They were pretty loud to be so unsure of themselves.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#loud #maybe #nature #noise #self-esteem