"Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it."

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Source : Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Ranjitsinhji

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.”

Source : "Hereditary Talent and Character". MacMillan's Magazine, 12, 1865.
“Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.”
“I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.”
“The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.”
“The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.”

Source : "Sebastian Vettel says Dan Wheldon's death highlights need for safety". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.
“Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]”
“I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.”
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”

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