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| Hickers | “Selective education seems to produce big-headed pretentious tossers.” | | |
| Mike | "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." -W.C. Fields | | |
| 'tk' | "If you think you can or if you think you can't you are probably right"- Henry Ford | | |
| 'tk' | "What a magnificent shot! No, he's out." - Tony Greig. | | |
| 'tk' | "You'll never die of a stroke," Sledge for slow batsmen | | |
| tom | "The Sri Lankan team have lost their heads, literally."- Gamine Goonasena | | |
| Smudger | "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." | | |
| Smudger | "The greatest regrets in our lives are the risks we did not take.If you think something will make you happy, go for it. Remember that you pass this way only once!" | | |
| Smudger | "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." | | |
| Smudger | Battles are not fought during the fight but inside yourself when you train. | | |
| Smudger | Victory favours neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favours the prepared. | | |
| Smudger | A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | | |
| Smudger | More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying they made them. | | |
| 'tk' | "You only achieve what you believe." | | |
| tom | "Taking It From Behind"- title of Richard Blakey's autobiography | | |
| Mike | "Los Angeles is a great place to live as long as you take care not to meet anybody" - Morrisey | | |
| matt | "Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented to give themselves some conception of eternity." - Lord Mancroft. | | |
| matt | "That was a tremendous six, the ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary." Fred Trueman | | |
| matt | "Anyone foolish enough to predict the outcome of this match is a fool." Fred Trueman | | |
| matt | "Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen." Fred Trueman | | |
| matt | "On the first day, Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off." Trevor Bailey | | |
| matt | "Waugh goes like a gazelle to the right and pouches the ball. Rather a large gazelle." | | |
| 'tk' | "That the sound of the sinker hitting the water mate"- Finny | | |
| dlc | Hope you have a lift home mate, because you can't drive - sledge vs OD Cuaco | | |
| 'tk' | "Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?"- Bob Gass | | |
| Hobo | £456.17 including labour, ex Vat, and frankly madam that's cheap | | |
| tom | "Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun."- Robert Townsend | | |
| tom | "Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals. Except the weasels."- Homer Simpson | | |
| 'tk' | "I would like people to begin to understand that we cyclists are a superior breed. To succeed you have to work, work, work." Super Mario "the lion king" Cipollini | | |
| 'tk' | 'Giving up was never an option.' --Lance Armstrong | | |
| Mike | "You're a muppet, Uncle Tim" -- bj | | |
| Hobo | The best form of defence is attack | | |
| Hobo | What's a hot spot not? | | |
| Smudger | nark nark - Pingu | | |
| Smudger | Is that your career runs on your shirt? - SPCC slips to 181 | | |
| Smudger | Cricket - It's never the same game twice | | |
| 181 | got your number (you've got his number John) - RACS/Orpington/(Linden Park) to 181 | | |
| Mike | "A relentlessly positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people you don't like to make it worth the effort." Captain CUCC | | |
| Smudger | That's out, that's out, that's out, I've got 86 fielders all where you hit it! (at nets) | | |
| Puggy | "I was born to play with balls" - George Leadbetter | | |
| Mike | "If that actor was any prettier, David, you'd have to call the film "Florence of Arabia"- Noel Coward | | |
| tom | "You're out."- Matt Davey | | |
| Hobo | It's a one ball game | | |
| Smudger | I think I've got something in my pocket you might like | | |
| Smudger | ".....if you break your leg, don't come running to me" | | |
| tom | "There were congratulations and high sixes all round." - Richie Benaud | | |
| tom | "When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague - then bat." - WG Grace | | |
| Smudger | "When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague - then bat." - Bear 2004 season | | |
| tom | "The knack is to realize how important cricket is to you and to other people but to approach each innings as if it doesn't matter."- Alan Knott | | |
| tom | "It is an absurd little game, based on fine margins of luck, involving a bit of wood hitting a bit of leather."- Nasser Hussain | | |
| Mike | The biggest problem with the French is that there is no word in their language for "entrepreneur" - GW Bush | | |
| Hobo | You can't please all people all of the time and you can't please some people any of the time | | |
| Hickers | "I'm just going to wet the lettuce" - Drunken female entering Harvey's Wine Bar toilets | | |
| Smudger | Never have the salad from Harvey's Wine Bar | | |
| Cymbals | "Dad, How do you do a slash?" - George 2004 season | | |
| Cymbals | "Alright Alright Alright" - Cymbals | | |
| Mike | "Giving less than 100% at nets is just wasting time you can never recover" Shane Warne | | |
| Bear | "who's the blonde teacher" - Rowey after 30 seconds at Lyminge Primary School. | | |
| Hickers | "Man in" - SPCC 1's | | |
| Hickers | "There's to much loving going on here" Rowey after the first "man in" shout. | | |
| Hickers | 'They've reversed the batting order' Canterbury CC as Bear walked out to bat at number 3 | | |
| Bear | "you're not even good enough for Wednesday evening cricket" - Harvel to Hickers - "enjoy division 2!" - Hickers reply. | | |
| Hobo | Never pull a bird that you can't lift off the ground | | |
| Mike |
If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) | | |
| Hobo | 'moan moan moan moan moan' - Smudger | | |
| Smudger | I'm thinking about the doorbell ringing, when ya gonna ring, when ya gonna ring it - The White Stripes | | |
| Cymbals | "Gor-geous" | | |
| Cymbals | "Beautiful" | | |
| Cymbals | "Theres one too many trophies" - George after seeing 12 trophies in a 6-a side tournament | | |
| Smudger | "moan moan moan whinge moan whinge" - Hobo | | |
| Hobo | Whatever - Hobo | | |
| Smudger | "My numbers not a secret" - Hobo | | |
| Firery Quick! | Pitch it up lad!!!! Don't bowl short -- Terry Hardie | | |
| Smudger | Father Likes Beaver - Scrooged | | |
| tom | Trebles for show, doubles for dough - Bobby George | | |
| Mike | the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits - Einstein | | |
| Mike | "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi | | |
| Mike | "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." Ali | | |
| Smudger | Cricket - 70% skill, 25% mind, 10% fitness, 5% luck | | |
| matt | Now David, Are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you? Malcolm Marshall | | |
| matt | "It's typical of English cricket. A tree gets in the way for 200 years and, when it falls down, instead of cheering they plant a new one." - David Gilbert (on Kent's new lime tree) | | |
| matt | "It's a catch-21 situation." - Kevin Pietersen | | |
| tom | Tomorrow never comes – Vitalstatistix | | |
| matt | Stop messin' araaaan with the sapele boy - Ruddock | | |
| Bear | "anyone got any moisturiser?" - Hayes dressing room | | |
| tom | Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right – William Feather | | |
| Annie | Who said cricket is boring? Well it's not: wait till you try it for yourself. | | |
| Bear | arrrgghhhhh / hit it / don't show me your foot / lovely - Spin bowler from Lordswood | | |
| Bear | He started it - Bear aged 4 3/4 | | |
| Smudger | Cricket can kill. | | |
| Annie | that's the way to do it | | |
| Smudger | Come on Tidy be my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - George, away at Hayes | | |
| tom | Darts can really help with literacy - Ray Stubbs | | |
| matt | Women should be obscene and not heard - Groucho Marx | | |
| Smudger | No really Osbourne, was that really out or are you joking? | | |
| Muzzer | "so hows your wife, and my kids" Rod Marsh sledge to Botham | | |
| Muzzer | "I never play cricket. It requires one to assume indecent postures" Oscar Wilde | | |
| matt | Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. - Marlo Thomas | | |
| matt | For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. | | |
| matt | England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley | | |
| matt | Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." | | |
| tom | We're missing Lawsie's mouth this week, which is a big hole to fill – Hickers | | |
| Smudger | Shar, Shar, catch me I'm going to feint. Hold me, hold my head. Quick, quick, call someone - Newman | | |
| Smudger | Hope you don't mind me keep asking how many balls left Umpire, its just at professional level some first class umpires don't like it - V Folkestone | | |
| Muzzer | "Im not trying to pull you,Ive got older things in my freezer than you"- last saturday night at Canterbury to a certain person. | | |
| Muzzer | "What would you rather fight, a lion or a gorilla?" Matt Davey | | |
| Muzzer | "I threw up twice whilst batting out there, i got that horrible acid taste in my mouth. Think I ate too much chocolate when I went to the shop" Simon Wren after getting out | | |
| Muzzer | "NARK NARK NARK NARK NARK NARK" Whitstable's captain after being given out plumb LBW on saturday! | | |
| Muzzer | "Ive been called ugly,pug ugly, fugly, pug fugly but never ugly-ugly" Moe Sislack | | |
| Smudger | Umpires should be there to hold jumpers and answer a question - Hartley CC 2007 | | |
| Cymbals | "Sibton....Do you want me!!!" - Hickmott, 2007 end of season party | | |
| Cymbals | Fresh | | |
| Cymbals | St.....double O......p, i, d, Stupid | | |
| Smudger | Personally payment of players if a massive NO to me it would take something away from the club and the team. There was a time when I was offered to play for a couple of clubs but turned it down for a few reasons one of which was I wasn't comfortabe with it and if I was playing club cricket I would want to be playing for my loyal club side. | | |
| juniorallon | Sam Newman to Michelle " tonight i had hickers in al sorts of positions u could only dream of" | | |
