Quotes About Bradman

#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

Donald Bradman

#2. Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

G.H. Hardy

#3. My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.

Gavin Ewart

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

Donald Bradman

#5. 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

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

Donald Bradman

#7. There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

Alexander McQueen

#8. I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

Leelee Sobieski

#9. I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

Shane Warne

#10. Hail!" chorused the mice. "Hail the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already!

Seanan McGuire

#11. Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

Les Carlyon

#12. 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

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

Donald Bradman

#14. 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

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

Donald Bradman

#16. A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

Charlotte Gray

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

Donald Bradman

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Donald Bradman

#22. All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe.

Forrest Curran

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia