In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989
If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises. – F. W. Hirst
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – Terry Eagleton