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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days? [on test cricket]
View quotes by Rafael Benitez

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
View quotes by Hal Clement

If you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real - what's fact- what's fantasy and so on.
View quotes by Betty Hill

Top class sport needs cut and thrust: Test matches, played over five days, ebb and flow.
View quotes by Jonathan Agnew

I'll get as much treatment as I can on it and touch wood - I'm touching my head - I'll be all right [on battling to get fit for the fifth Ashes test]
View quotes by Simon Jones

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
View quotes by Robert G Ingersoll

If we can play the way we have done in the last two days at the start of the next Test hopefully there will be a different result [on losing to England in the Ashes]
View quotes by Ricky Ponting

My timing has been perfect all game. Test cricket is about playing the situation, not being an individual.
View quotes by Nasser Hussain

The Test cricket team is looking good but in one-dayers England are ordinary and not saying they want to win the World Cup
View quotes by Geoff Boycott

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
View quotes by Lord Acton

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics (A Mathematician's Apology)
View quotes by Godfrey Harold Hardy

I have decided that it is better if I stop playing Test cricket and concentrate on giving my best for the team in the one-dayers
View quotes by Shahid Afridi

It's a bigger moment than if I had taken it in Australia, it's the right time I think [on becoming Test crickets leading wicket taker]
View quotes by Muttiah Muralitharan

The need of the hour is to replace ignorant curators with knowledgable ones. Otherwise, it could prove catastrophic for Test cricket.
View quotes by Javagal Srinath

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

Getting the call for the Test matches is a dream come true as is going out and get a five-for against India's strong batting line-up
View quotes by Stuart Broad

Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
View quotes by William James

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
View quotes by Kevin Pietersen

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
View quotes by Pat Riley

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