A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

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.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

External sources of positive energy and motivation will exhaust, unless we have our captive generation of positive energy.The only sustainable source of positive energy is our thoughts.

a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.

So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.