Gideon Haigh Quotes

#1. Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

Gideon Haigh

#2. The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

Gideon Haigh

#3. Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

Dick Durbin

#4. I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

Gideon Haigh

#6. A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

Gideon Haigh

#7. Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures..

Dan Sperber

#8. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.

Mitch Albom

#9. No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.

Gideon Haigh

#10. Lost serie are full of depression I think or there is some kind of like this... I don't know up to where I could get... but I will try my best.

Deyth Banger

#11. The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.

Gideon Haigh

#12. The risk is, as ever, that the hyperbole of IPL will simply smother the cricket; perhaps the members of the IPL's cheer squad should stop listening to each other and start listening to themselves.

Gideon Haigh

#13. if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

Lovely Goyal