Talk:Cricket

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 * For six days, thou shall push up and down the line, but on the seventh day thou shall swipe.
 * Doug Padgett, 1969


 * When you win the toss – bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague – then bat.
 * Attributed to W. G. Grace.


 * Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
 * Paul Hogan


 * Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.
 * Douglas Jardine, captain of England, 1931-34. Jardine was quoting a phrase that had previously been used by a New Zealander; as he said during that filmed sequence of the speech


 * Cricket is just baseball on valium.
 * Robin Williams


 * "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
 * Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1996)  Amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.