Top 37 Richie Benaud Quotes
#1. In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
Richie Benaud
#2. In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
Suzanne Farrell
#3. Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.
Richie Benaud
#4. Tone was all. Gift wrap was all. Perfect the wrap, and you could put whatever you wanted in the box. You could put firecrackers. You could put dog shit.
Lorrie Moore
#5. It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.
Richie Benaud
#6. Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.
Richie Benaud
#7. My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud
#8. The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
Richie Benaud
#9. When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!
Richie Benaud
#10. From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
Richie Benaud
#11. There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
Socrates
#12. The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
Richie Benaud
#13. Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!
Dana Gould
#14. I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.
Richie Benaud
#15. Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.
Richie Benaud
#16. A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud
#17. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.
Donald Miller
#18. 'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.
Richie Benaud
#19. From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
Enrico Colantoni
#20. Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud
#21. When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
Richie Benaud
#22. In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
#23. The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
Richie Benaud
#24. Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
Marilu Henner
#25. I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.
George Brandis
#26. The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
Richie Benaud
#27. Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.
Richie Benaud
#28. Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
Richie Benaud
#29. Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.
Richie Benaud
#30. Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.
Richie Benaud
#31. Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.
Max Lucado
#32. He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Richie Benaud
#33. Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Richie Benaud
#34. Don't let your profession keep you from pursuing your passion!
Vineet Aggarwal
#36. But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
Richie Benaud
#37. The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.
Richie Benaud
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