Richie Benaud Quotes

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

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Place
  • Cruelty
  • Stands

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Service

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Kid
  • Texas
  • Western

• Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Home
  • Like
  • Joke

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • May
  • She

• Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.

  

  Logic
  • True
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I'm a slow reader.

  

  Benicio Del Toro

• One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Father
  • Conservative

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.

  

  David Chang
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series-now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.

  

  Bob Costas
  • World
  • May
  • Game

• I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor.

  

  Mike Schultz
  • Team
  • Joining
  • Sponsor

• 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
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Hero