Richie Benaud Quotes

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

Richie Benaud

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Language

• When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Man
  • Political
  • Building

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Why
  • Myself

• If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.

  

  Astro
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Song

• I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Work
  • Done

• It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • People
  • Up
  • Winning

• It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Important

• I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • American
  • Comedy

• I want to get on base every single time I get up there. Whether it's a walk or a base hit, I really don't care how I want to get on base. I just want to be on.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Tennis

• There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

  

  Jessica Hagedorn
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Eyes

• The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

  

  Alexander Mackendrick
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Experience

• The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

  

  Marion Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Past
  • Running
  • Winning

• Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Parent
  • Handle
  • Keeping

• What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Firsts
  • Chickens

• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Ability