English Cricketer Quotes

Thomas Hughes

Beau Brummell

W. G. Grace

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Joe Root

I just told [Ali] to stay calm. Remember that you've got more time than you think. In this format of the game the bowlers are under more pressure than you are. Stay nice and relaxed. Thankfully he managed to get us across the line.

[When asked if anyone would break his record of 307 wickets]If anyone beats it, they'll be bloody tired.

My fortune in cricket was to play when the first-class game was free and fast-flowing and with a county as concerned to play attractive and sporting cricket as to win.

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.

No perfumes, but very fine linen, plenty of it, and country washing.

… I am not, and never have been, a Soviet agent.

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

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

I was brought up to believe that cricket is the most important activity in men's lives, the most important thread in the fabric of the cosmos.

Bernard Hollowood

Jimmy Carter had the air of a man who had never taken any decisions in his life. They had always taken him.

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

Lionel Tennyson

It's a well-known fact that, when I'm on 99, I'm the best judge of a run in all the bloody world.

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.

Pakistan is where I'm from - it was where I was born, it was where I was brought up. I've got a lot of affection towards Pakistan.

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.