Test Match Quotes

#1. Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.

Romesh Gunesekera

#2. I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Virat Kohli

#3. It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

Ricky Ponting

#4. It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

Ricky Ponting

#5. Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

Kapil Dev

#6. It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

Ricky Ponting

#7. A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

Ian Chappell

#8. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

Justin Langer

#9. I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

David Campese

#10. England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

David Lloyd

#11. If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

David Lloyd

#12. Preparation is the only way to get ready for a hard test, whether a court trial, race, boxing match, Broadway appearance or death. You can fake readiness, falling back on past experience and bravado. But without backbreaking preparation for a main event, you know inside that you aren't really ready.

James Donovan

#13. That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words ... and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their "possibles", in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them.

Georges Bataille

#14. As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

Bill Maher

#15. I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.

Riteish Deshmukh

#16. Knowledge is essential, but it's not sufficient.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#17. I'm a man without a country. Or I'm a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

Ally Carter

#18. When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love

Axwell

#19. So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

Robert Gibbs

#20. The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#21. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.

Ellis Peters

#22. I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

T. Boone Pickens

#23. Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Ruud Gullit

#24. Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

Andrew Shue

#25. If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I'll date him, but I'm not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.

Jenny Han

#26. Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?

Sui Ishida

#27. If a cigarette butt in the bottom of a beer bottle had a voice it would be the voice of Phil Tufnell.

Telford Vice

#28. I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

Richard Roundtree

#29. Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.

Alan Paton

#30. One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Hugh Jackman