Douglas Jardine quotes

Douglas Jardine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.”
-- Douglas Jardine

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“All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.”
-- Douglas Jardine

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“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
“You always catch the wrong players.”
“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”
“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”
“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”
“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”
“The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.”
“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”
“You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.”

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