Cricket sayings

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◆ 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 Ganguly99

◆ Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

- John Milton99

◆ 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 Fowles99

◆ 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 Taylor99

◆ 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 Fermor99

◆ Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ 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 Pinter99

◆ Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

- George Mikes99

◆ It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

- Robin Williams99

◆ You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

- Murray Walker99

◆ I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

- Sachin Tendulkar99

◆ Cricket was my reason for living.

- Harold Larwood99

◆ Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

- Harold Larwood99