“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”

“This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.”

“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”

“Long ago I discovered that there was more to life than cricket, and more to cricket than runs and wickets.”

“The softness, and the glare, and the temptations, and the licence, and the lax examples about us, are more seducing and dangerous than the winter of penal laws. They hardened the manhood of Catholic parents. The summer sun relaxes many.”

“Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.”

“My fortune in cricket was to play when the first-class game was free and fast-flowing and with a county as concerned to play attractive and sporting cricket as to win.”

“People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.”

“There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.”

“There's nothing that tastes of death more than the summer sun, the powerful light, exuberant nature. You sniff the air and listen to the woods and know that the plants and animals don't give a damn about you. Everything lives and consumes itself. Nature is death…”