Bradman Cricket Quotes

#1. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.

Raphael Zernoff

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

Donald Bradman

#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

Donald Bradman

#4. I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine.

Kevin Whately

#5. Buying that mask of Beethoven was an impossible dream.

Jose Saramago

#6. You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

Sam Altman

#7. Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Bill Cosby

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

Donald Bradman

#9. Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.

R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

#10. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.

St. George Tucker

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

Donald Bradman

#12. Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

G.H. Hardy

#13. My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

David Peace

#14. 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.

Donald Bradman

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

Donald Bradman