British Cricketer Quotes

Douglas Bader

J. C. Ryle

George Hirst

Geoff Boycott

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

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

It is better to have written a damned play, than no play at all—it snatches a man from obscurity.

Frederic Reynolds

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

He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

To be No. 1 in sport you have to have a narrow tunnel vision. Dedication. You want to call it selfishness, arrogance, whatever. It's dog eat dog. There are no prisoners taken; there's none expected.

Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.

If you have a love for the game of cricket, whether you are a player, an ex-player or simply an onlooker, many will be the pleasures in your life.

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