Neville Cardus Quotes

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

Neville Cardus

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• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Cricket

• I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Serious
  • Cricket

• The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Try
  • Mindset

• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stand
  • Cricket
  • Nose

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Cricket
  • Publicity

• Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Game
  • Play
  • Cricket

• The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Change
  • Government

• I always breathe cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Breathe
  • Cricket

• Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way Cant you hear that Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass He got that super bass Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass Yeah that's that super bass

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Way
  • Boy
  • Boys

• Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Football
  • Depression
  • Cricket

• You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Free
  • Body
  • Cant

• A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Live
  • Belonging
  • Cant

• I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Careers

• I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Thinking
  • Sports
  • Appreciate

• If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Enjoy
  • Cant

• I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Teacher
  • Son
  • Needs

• Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Summer
  • Matter
  • Holiday

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Life Is A

• A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.

  

  Rumi
  • Voice
  • Mountain
  • Inside

• Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Musician
  • Rock N Roll
  • Jew

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  

  Neville Cardus
  • Cricket
  • Cant
  • Sentimentalism