Oh, Grandpa Rick! I don't wanna be on the Citadel anymore! I want to be a regular kid! I want to go to school and throw balls around and masturbate!

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours.

[Ricky: GARBAGE DAY!] Huh? NO!

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

I hate you, Ricky! I hate you! [Ricky: Punish!] Uh-oh!

If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.

On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing.

The biblical evidence for the existence of purgatory is, shall we say, ‘creative’, again employing the common theological trick of vague, hand-waving analogy.

One can list on the fingers of one hand the truly influential organizational scholars working prior to 1950. They include: Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol, Elton Mayo, and Chester I Barnard. Of these, the two paying most attention to the sociological aspects of organizations were Weber and Barnard.

I hate you, Ricky! I hate you! [Ricky: Punish!] Uh-oh!

Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.

I am your Mother Superior, and I raised you from a child. I order you to put that weapon down and take your punishment. [Ricky: No more punishment.] You are being very, very naughty! [Ricky: NAUGHTY THIS!]

What the fuck? Easy boy, you're not well! Hey, listen Ricky, the bit about the broccoli, I was just kidding. Seriously, want a drink? No! No! NOOOO!

I am one of those fortune people who have seen Bradman and Tendulkar bat in my lifetime and in my opinion Tendulkar is the best batsman I have seen in my life.

In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.