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

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.

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.

A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

The heart cannot exalt in what the mind rejects.

I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.