Neville Cardus Quotes
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We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
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The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
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The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
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It is far more than a game, this cricket.
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
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Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
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The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.