19th-century Cricketer Quotes

Thomas Hughes

W. G. Grace

J. C. Ryle

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

George Hirst

Aubrey Faulkner

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.

Alfred Cochrane

Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.

Edward Ernest Bowen

He revolutionised cricket. He turned it from an accomplishment into a science.

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

Lionel Tennyson

Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have.

Aubrey Faulkner

To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual.

I don't know, but I do know that if anyone does he'll be bloody tired.

There are no chasms in science, and so long as knowledge is man's knowledge, it is one. The world is not made in compartments answering to university lectureships.

George Sandeman

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.