(495 quotes found)
“The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity”
George Bernard Shaw
“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
Robin Williams
“Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.”
Jack Handy
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.”
“It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game”
George Mikes
“No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”
Woodrow Wyatt
“One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.”
Henry Blofeld
“He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match”
Aneurin Bevan
