Quotes About Donald 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. 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. 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

#5. You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.

Ricky Gervais

#6. I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

Joe Madureira

#7. She said I was a monster, and for a long time I believed her. But you made me feel like a man, someone worthy of being loved. Then you went away, and I had nothing, nothing but a
hopeless demon inside.

N.D. Jones

#8. May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

George Jung

#9. Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Florence King

#10. 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

#11. In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

Wasif Ali Wasif

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

Donald Bradman

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

Donald Bradman

#14. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

#15. You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.

George R R Martin

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

Donald Bradman

#17. The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#18. Good deeds are permanent footprints.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. BOOK TWO COMBATING RESISTANCE

Steven Pressfield

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

Donald Bradman

#21. The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

Gertrude Stein

#22. To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

Timothy Keller

#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. I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There's some wood for you bitch!

Gillian Flynn