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Quote Sport Unquote

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Cricket - Tea towels to David Gower

 

You have two sides. One out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out including the not outs. That's the end of the game. Howzat!

Cricket (as explained to a foreigner); found on Cricket Linen Tea Towels .

 

Here we are in this country with sub-zero temperatures and struggling along and in the Caribbean and in glorious sunshine 22 of the world’s best cricketers are playing Test cricket. There is television yet none of us can see it. It’s enough to make an Orthodox Jew join the Nazi party.

Judge Michael Argyle QC who once jailed a football hooligan for life

 

Women already play an important part in club cricket. They make the tea.

Brian Aspital, Secretary of the National Cricket Association

 

I just hope people won’t think I’m a swine and a rotter.

John Barclay, Sussex captain on declaring when Mendis was 96 not out.

 

The googly is not unfair, only immoral.

Bernard Bosanquet, inventor of the googly; an off break bowled with a leg-break action

 

Nobody’s perfect. You know what happened to the last man who was - they crucified him.

Geoff Boycott on his slow batting.

 

Given the choice between Raquel Welch and a hundred at Lords I’d take the hundred every time.

Geoff Boycott.

 

Unless I’m crackers or something, I’ve scored a bloody sight more runs than that bearded old bugger.

Geoff Boycott on W G Grace

 

It’s hard to bat with tears in your eyes.

Don Bradman bowled for 0 in final test innings. His final failure with the bat cost him a test average of 100. He remains on 99.7 runs per innings.

 

If everything in this nation of ours was lost but cricket - her Constitution and the laws of England and Lord Halsbury - it would be possible to reconstruct from the theory and practice of cricket all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of that Constitution and the laws aforesaid.

Neville Cardus

 

A few gentlemen, some professionals, a couple you’d rather not introduce to your mother and at least one you’d cross Oxford Street to avoid.

Frances Edmunds on husband Phil's England team mates.

 

It’s difficult to be more laid back without being actually comatose.

Frances Edmunds on David Gower

 

This is a test match. It’s not Old Reptonians versus Lymeswold, 'one off the mark' and 'jolly good show. '

David Gower, England captain, refusing to criticise Malcolm Marshall of the West Indies for bowling bouncers in the fifth test.