Top 27 English Cricket Quotes
#1. I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.
Andrew Strauss
#2. The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.
Jim Laker
#3. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
Stephen Fry
#4. The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Stephen Leacock
#5. I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.
Alessandra Torre
#6. Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes
#7. I wish people would see us as people first, I really dislike it when people just see 'Autism' with me and thats all i hear all the time. I'm autistic, yes. But think of me as a person always, a human like you.
Tina J. Richardson
#8. Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle
#9. During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.
Glenn Turner
#10. As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
Jeremy Northam
#11. I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
Beyonce Knowles
#12. The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. We could sit around and talk if you'd like."
"Okay." She crossed her arms and tried to look casual. "So what's up?"
"Considering what you're wearing beneath that sheet, and what we just heard in the hallway, you might want to rephrase that particular statement.
Jill Shalvis
#16. The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
Kapil Dev
#17. I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well,
Kapil Dev
#19. Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
Jack Nicklaus
#20. When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
Kapil Dev
#21. A man of your advanced years is surely a little deaf." "Sorry, could you speak up? I can't hear you.
E.L. James
#22. Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James
#23. it was one of the frickin' Golden Girls:
J.R. Ward
#24. English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
Agnes Repplier
#25. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus
#26. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
Richard Reti
#27. The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
Bill Bryson
