Richie Benaud Quotes (25 Quotes)


    All these things are nice but you've got to bear in mind that out there - and I do get correspondence to confirm this - there are others who don't have me at the top, who say why don't you talk more, why don't you do this or that. Everyone has their own idea about commentating.

    Morning Geoffrey, morning Mark... morning everyone..

    Well, Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

    But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

    A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.


    Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

    He would have been keen about the crowd here today - a packed house. Kerry was a great character, a really great character, so my life would have been less interesting without having known him all those years.

    I've been picking around with the game now for some time, but I've never seen anything like this -

    He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time.

    The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

    But now that the series has been decided, the teams were well matched but Australia got a surprise.

    The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

    We first met during the formation of World Series cricket. There was never anything mundane or orthodox about him. At the meeting I had with him, the thing that struck me most was that he was concerned only with the players. It was his job to put (the poor state of cricket) right, and put it right he did. He was absolutely brilliant.

    In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

    It's my view, and people may disagree with it, that this series shades that tour. And that's saying something.

    The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

    Because out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

    From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

    He looked at me for a long time and just turned and said 'Thanks', though whether that's 'Thanks, but no thanks' or 'Thanks, thanks', I don't know.

    My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

    I keep reading it is too long a summer but we keep having sell-outs at the matches. I think it would be crazy to pay too much attention to suggestions we need to shorten the summer.

    They hammered the point home to never ever say 'we'. And I never forgot it and it stayed with me for all those years...to say 'we' sounded both stupid and parochial.

    The last two years have been the best I've watched and commented on in 57 years, ... The most exciting, skilful, and with wonderful fielding.

    I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

    The last two years have been the best cricket I've watched in 57 years,


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