Quotes for All
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or … Read more
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first. Gagan Narang
Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect. Gagan Narang
To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket. Gagan Narang
Village cricket spread fast through the land. G. M. Trevelyan
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! G. M. Trevelyan
Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. G. H. Hardy
We lost the crickets, she said. Even you can’t make that sound tough. …I am Butler, he said with a straight-face. Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy. Eoin Colfer
We lost the crickets. Eoin Colfer