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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score. — Eddie Jones

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it. — Kapil Dev

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket. — Stephen Leacock

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. — Martin Fleischmann

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia. — Jim Laker

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties. — Kapil Dev

Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die. — Ally Condie

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. — George Bernard Shaw

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. — George Mikes

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting. — Bill Bryson