“After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.”

— Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country (US), Down Under (UK) (2000)

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Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”

Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) Professional baseball player

Attributed without citation in Young, David. Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life, Wind Runner Press, 2011. p. 189.

“If I can do something for the game and the young cricketers through the ICL, I will not budge”

Kapil Dev (1959) Indian cricketer

Quoted in "Profile: Kapil Dev".

“Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.”

Jean Chrétien (1934) 20th Prime Minister of Canada

Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Eight, Tales from the Nineteenth Hole, p. 198

“Golf is such a wonderful game, I love it to death.”

Charlie Sifford (1922–2015) professional golfer

Charlie Sifford hailed by Tiger Woods and others for breaking golf barriers https://www.pga.com/news/pga/charlie-sifford-hailed-tiger-woods-and-others-breaking-golf-barriers by The Associated Press (November 18, 2014)

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“I decided to say this after it was clear that over several years Saudis have been leaving for jihad. They did this because they are passionate about their religion but they are not wise enough to know right from wrong.”

Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh (1943) Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia

Saudi cleric issues warning over Saudi militants, Reuters, 01 Oct 2007 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01171648.htm,
Saudi Grand Mufti warns against fighting, donations that "damage Muslims" http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/10/018343print.html

“Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction.”

Ben Travers (1886–1980) English writer of plays, screenplays, novels, and three memoirs

The Infatuee, included in The Cricketer's Bedside Book (1966)

“The game, whether it is called first-class or otherwise, is CRICKET, and any measure can only be a half-measure which aims at differentiating between the classes of cricket.”

K. S. Ranjitsinhji book The Jubilee Book of Cricket

The Jubilee Book of Cricket (1897)

“We need clear rules to play the game. We need to have respect for the law. If you play a chess game but after two or three moves you can change the rules, how can people play with you? Of course you will win, but after 60 years you will still be a bad player because you never meet anyone who can challenge you. What kind of game is that? Is that interesting? This game is not right, but who is going to say, 'Hey, let’s play fairly?”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011

“After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.”

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