Mahela Jayawardene famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Zero #Thinking #One Day
People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Moving #Worry #People
I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Hard Work #Work Out #Feelings
It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Nice #Character #Player
The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Country #Boys #Thinking
There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically..
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#No Fear #Handle
We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.
-- Mahela Jayawardene

#Sri Lanka #Play #Australia

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when youâ€™re gone the most important thing youâ€™ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story youâ€™re proud to have others tell.
There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Mahela Jayawardene famous quotes

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