Ranjitsinhji quotes

“A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.”
-- Ranjitsinhji

#Running Quotes #Bowling Quotes #Certain Quotes

“Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.”
-- Ranjitsinhji

Source : Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

#Balls Quotes

“It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.”
-- Ranjitsinhji

#Play Quotes #Sight Quotes #Safe Quotes

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

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“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”

“It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne”

“It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.”

“Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.”

“The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding”

“I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.”

“At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”