Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

The insecure way is the secure way.

No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.