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Cricket

«Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game»
«I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either»
Author: Harold Pinter (Playwright) | About: Cricket, God, Sex | Keywords: cricket, crickets, too bad
«Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed»
«Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.»
«Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen»
«Cricket is basically baseball on valium.»
«The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world...This is how it has worked for me»
«Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.»
«Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!»
«It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures»

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