Donald Bradman Quotes

#1. The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

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#2. May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

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#3. Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development

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#4. Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

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#5. Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

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#6. I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

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#7. Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

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#8. Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

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#9. There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

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#10. The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.

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#11. When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

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