Quotes of The Week - Lords Test Match Special

“Geoffrey’s mum is the best player of all time who could bat on any wicket.”

Commentator Harsha Bhogle pokes fun at Geoffrey Boycott for the latter’s claim that even his mum would love to play Suresh Raina’s gentle off-breaks.

Raina later ended up taking Graeme Swann’s wicket much to Harsha Bhogle’s delight.

“When you field in the Kanga cricket league, you might end up facing the mid-off fielder playing another match!”

Sunil Gavaskar explains how Mumbaikars manage to play simultaneous matches on the same ground.

“I have no idea what you are talking about”

Nasser Hussain clearly hasn’t visited the public cricket grounds in India’s cities.

“If Sachin is Kishore, then Dravid is Rafi. Both are geniuses and we should be proud to have watched them play.”

Rajdeep Sardesai pays tribute to the two great Indian batsmen.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“How do you explain to your wife that you are going away to play a game and not return

For 5 days.”

Former Liverpool manager, Rafael Benitez knows as much about Test Cricket as Nasser Hussain

does about local Indian cricket.

Quotes of The Week - July 8, 2011 to July 15, 2011

Traveller:  “How long have you been here?”

Travel Guide: “I came here originally for a weekend and ended up staying for 14 years! “

The travel guide is enjoying the perpetual weekend in Goa.

“I want to retire from politics”

Home minister Chidambaram expresses an unprecedented desire in Indian politics.

Mr. Karunanidhi, are you listening?

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK

“Class Dismissed.”

NY Times gives a fitting title and describes the last edition of the Harry Potter saga.

BANNER OF THE WEEK

The prophetic folks at NDTV PROFIT know that something drastic is in store for us on July 23.

I hope they haven’t resorted to phone hacking too.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning”

Football manager Sam Allardyce expresses his frustration after getting the sack at Newcastle United in 2008.

Quotes of The Week - July 1st to July 8th

“She has a hawkeye, doesn’t she?”

Commentator Louise Pleming during the first set of the Wimbledon Ladies Singles final

when Sharapova successfully challenged two decisions through Hawkeye.

Commentator’s curse finally caught up with the lanky lass as she wrongly challenged two decisions

early in the second set.

“I was an ATHEIST until I realized that I am GOD !”

Found on the T-Shirt of a college kid in Bangalore waiting for a bus.

“We want to triple our FMCG business excluding cigarettes in the next 5 years to ensure

 A healthy bottom line “

ITC chairman Y.C. Deveshwar manages to use the words ‘cigarettes’ and ‘healthy’ in the same sentence.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don’t .”

A techie struts his stuff on the blogosphere. 

 HEADLINE OF THE WEEK

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_says_sayonara_to_japan_one_last_time-news-2845.php

  Here’s a list of memorable quotes that caught my eye over the last week or so.

What do you reckon? Add your own to the end of the list.    

“I would have liked to have another old bloke around the group with me, yeah. “

Ricky Ponting expresses his disappointment on Simon Katich facing the axe. 

No, he’s not asking Shane Warne to make a comeback. He knows Warney is too busy at the moment bowling a ‘maiden’ over.

“Charlotte Edwards’ math degree would come in handy to calculate the Net Run Rate.”

Commentator on NZ Women vs England Women cricket match thinks a maths degree is required to comprehend cricket’s complex statistics.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Journalist to Liverpool manager, Kenny Dalglish : “Kenny, can  I have a quick word?”

Dalglish: “ Velocity! “

ON A SERIOUS NOTE

“It takes a whole community to raise a child.”


Anonymous. Check out this link for the origin.

AND FINALLY,

Click here for all the Wimbledon quotes from this year.