Sourav Ganguly Quotes

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.