Bhogle's Quotes

#1. Harsha Bhogle is always politically correct and keeps praising Indian players, but he doesn't extend the same courtesy to Ganguly. Sarcasm is Bhogle's favourite weapon.

Saptarshi Sarkar

#2. There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

Harsha Bhogle

#3. Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

Harsha Bhogle

#4. Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

Harsha Bhogle

#5. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Harsha Bhogle

#6. A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Harsha Bhogle

#7. Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Harsha Bhogle

#8. There are no rules in live television.

Harsha Bhogle

#9. I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

Harsha Bhogle

#10. If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

Harsha Bhogle

#11. Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

Harsha Bhogle

#12. For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.

Harsha Bhogle

#13. For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

Harsha Bhogle

#14. MS Dhoni still the best bet as Test, ODI captain. No calmer finisher than Dhoni

Harsha Bhogle

#15. Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Harsha Bhogle

#16. One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Harsha Bhogle

#17. Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

Harsha Bhogle

#18. Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing

Harsha Bhogle

#19. Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Harsha Bhogle

#20. What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'
- Martina Navratilova

Harsha Bhogle

#21. MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

Harsha Bhogle

#22. Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

Harsha Bhogle

#23. Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Harsha Bhogle

#24. Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

Harsha Bhogle

#25. Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Harsha Bhogle

#26. When the times are good, stretch them. But when the times are bad, stick to the basics and be honest with yourself.

Anita Bhogle

#27. The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

Harsha Bhogle

#28. Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

Harsha Bhogle

#29. To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

Harsha Bhogle

#30. Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

Harsha Bhogle

#31. Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

Harsha Bhogle

#32. If Dhoni plays till the end, one thing is for sure..He will make his team Win.

Harsha Bhogle

#33. I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

Harsha Bhogle

#34. In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Harsha Bhogle