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
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. – Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981, referring to cricket
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didnt think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right – I did always want to be good. – James McAvoy
So much of a professional athletes success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with… always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. – Brett Favre
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then youre not strictly bound to a linear narrative. – Tommy Lee Jones
