It is far more than a game, this cricket.

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.

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.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

I lived with my mother for only a short time. Even though I left, she is always surrounding me with her love.

...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.

Whatever you frequently introduce to your subconscious mind is what it will continuously feed your feelings and emotions with.

Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.

Thank You!' is the most powerful vibration you can send out into the Universe.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.