Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I love England and I love cricket.

I think every Indian knows how to play cricket.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

My role is to play out the full overs.

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

Canada is hockey.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

All lands are beautiful in the eyes of their people.

I shall yet live to see it an English nation.

Thailand was built on compassion.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.

We all grow up dreaming of playing international cricket.

I wanted to be a cricketer.