Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Navjot Singh Sidhu (born 20 October 1963) is an Indian cricket commentator and former player. He is famous for his witticisms that have come to be known as Sidhuisms.
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- It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
- Referring to Dinesh Mongia, who was like a reliable pony than Rahul Dravid who at that time, was more like an unreliable horse, on a television broadcast (11 July 2002), during a one day match with Sri Lanka in England.
- The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
- When Farooque Sheikh, host of the talk show Jeena isi ka naam hai asked him what he thinks of those who criticize his style of commentary "Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai" on Zee TV, (17 June 2004)
- If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.
- This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.
- On Twenty20 cricket, in "Twenty20 game is 'underwear' cricket: Sidhu" in Khaleej Times (19 July 2006)
He moved like a heavy duty truck
As safe as a bucket ( for a fielder taking a catch successfully)
A depression is where you have no belt to tighten.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
A fifty is like kissing a virgin; you just have to go on!
A good example is the best sermon you can ever preach.
A good lather is half the shave.
A lemon squeezed too hard yields a bitter juice.
All that comes from cow is not milk.
A man who is heading nowhere is sure to reach his destination.
A pessimist is one who burns bridges before the enemy gets to them.
A recession is where you have to tighten your belt.
As innocent as freshly laid eggs. (About Atal Behari Vajpayee.)
A small leak can sink a big ship.
A tree is always known by its fruit.
A true professional is like a chameleon - he will change color to suit his surroundings.
Age is the perfect extinguisher for the fire of youth.
All that comes from a cow is not milk.
Bad habits are like comfy beds - easy to get into, very difficult to get out of.
Beauty even when silent is eloquent.
Big boast, small roast.
Call the bear uncle until you cross his bridge.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
Character isn’t made in a crisis, but it IS shown in one.
Commonsense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they need to be done.
Hurry is a worry.
Disappointments need to be cremated, not embalmed.
Don’t die until you’re dead.
Easy to criticize an egg, difficult to lay one.
Even a cock crows over his own dung heap.
Even a turtle won’t move until he sticks his neck out.
Every dog is a lion at his own door.
Every time a lamb bleats, it loses a mouthful of hay.
Everything comes out from a cow is not butter.
Experience is the thing you get right after you need it.
Failure is a better teacher than success, but it will seldom get an apple.
Faith in your abilities will help you face the music, even if you don’t like the tune.
Fine feathers make a fine bird.
Flattery is like chewing gum, you chew it for a while, don’t swallow it - and after a while, spit it out!
Gamblers are like toilets - broke one day, flush the next.
Good deeds speak for themselves, the tongue only speaks of their eloquence.
He’s shredded that into smithereens
He has either got to tighten his belt or lose his pants.
He looks at the umpire as innocent as a freshly laid egg.
He who ceases to praise ceases to prosper.
He who doesn’t throw the dice will never get a six.
He’s like a tornado - he can really blow you off your feet.
He’s shredded that into smithereens
He flew like a bird and plucked it out of thin air.
He is like Indian three-wheeler which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30!
New Zealanders are like bicycles in a cycle stand - one falls down and the complete row will be down! (In India’s last match against New Zealand)
His mind is on the boisterous sea of doubt.
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Hope is the elixir of life.
Ideas are funny things - they don’t work unless you do.
If fate gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
If one-day cricket was pajama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.
If the heavens throw you a date, open your mouth.
If you dine with the devil, use a long spoon.
If you enjoy a particular thing, you will always succeed at it.
If you want to catch a fish, you have to lose a fly
If you want your hen to lay, you have to bear the cackling.
In life, as in chess, it is foresight which will win.
In times of prosperity, remember it’s the fattest pig that goes to the butcher.
It is better to pluck the fruit from the tree than wait for it to fall.
It is choice, not chance that determines destiny.
It is tiny droplets of water that make a shower. He’s believing his doubt and doubting his belief.
It is very difficult to kill a man who is hell-bent on committing suicide.
It’s not the early bird that gets the worm, it’s the smart one.
Judge people by their performance, not by their intentions.
Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.
Liquor talks mighty loud when it’s let loose from the jug.
Mr Boycott, the last time you celebrated your birthday, the candles cost more than the cake. (To remind Sir Geoffery Boycott of his age, while the latter was talking about his fascination with young Indian actress Shilpa Shetty)
My idea of a bird is 36-24-36.
Next to good judgment, diamonds and pearls are the next rarest thing.
Optimist is the one who looks at bullshit and sees fertilizer.
Patience is the greatest of all shock-absorbers.
Penny and penny will make many.
Pitches are like wives - you never know which way they’ll turn.
Some students will drink from the fountain of knowledge - others will simply gargle.
Speed has little to do with your progress - it is more to do with direction.
Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian auto (auto rickshaw - form of Indian taxi) meter.
Statistics are like miniskirts. What they reveal is tantalizing, but what they hide is crucial. (Variant: Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.)
Strength grows in the garden of patience.
Strike when the iron is hot, and make the iron hot by striking.
Success is a matter of luck and pluck.
Success is the fruit of concentration.
Talent is nothing if it’s not controlled, harnessed and disciplined.
That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it !! (When Saurav Ganguly took a catch that had gone very high in the air)
The ball whizzes past like a bumble bee and the Indians are in the sea.
The bill was buzzing past the head like a bumblebee breaking wind.
The blood of the soldier gives glory to the general.
The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
The doghouse is no place to keep a sausage.
The first blow is half the battle.
The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it… !!
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend, that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world which does not have wings! (To Martin Crowe)
The light at the end of the tunnel is nothing but an oncoming train.
The longer the rope, the tighter the noose.
The older you get, the better you get - unless you’re a banana.
The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.
The only thing you get in life without effort is dandruff.
The weakness of your opposition is your strength.
The whole world is not cleaned by soft soap.
The world is all about mind and matter; I don’t mind and you don’t matter.
Their batting lineup is like a row of cycles - if one falls, the entire row collapses.
There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
There’s free cheese in a mousetrap.
They are like brooding hens on top of a china egg.
They’re trying to make a whistle sound like a trumpet.
This is a batsman who is as eratic as the electricity supply in most parts of India.
Those openers are like nappies, and changed for the same reason.
To achieve, you have to believe.
To catch a trout, you must be prepared to lose a fly.
To err is human - but not too often.
Troubles are like babies - the more you nurse them, the bigger they grow.
Wallowing in foolishness like a rhinoceros in an African bog.
Were “ifs” and “buts” pots and pans there would be no tinkers.
When everything is coming your way, you might just be in the wrong lane of traffic.
When you are an anvil, hold yourself still.
When you are eating with the devil, you’ve got to have long utensils. (Variant: When you are dining with the demon you’ve got to have a long spoon!)
When you are submerged up to your ears in trouble, try using the part that isn’t submerged.
When you have no pants to hold up, it is time to panic.
When you’re a hammer, strike your fill.
When you’re running with the big dogs, you can’t piddle like a puppy.
Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn! (In the midst of a verbal duel with Martin Crowe)
Winning is not important, but wanting to win is.
You always make your own luck.
You aren’t rewarded for having brains, you’re rewarded for using them.
You can’t squeeze toothpaste back into the tube.
You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the tiger.
You can’t prevent the consequences of your mistakes.
You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
You’ve got to put the saddle on the right horse.
Your originality is your strength.
Warne is a victim of his own success. He has taken to women the way an ostrich takes to the skies
If my aunty had been a man she would have been my uncle
He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition
This bowler bowls so slow that the batsmen have enough time to call home and talk to their wives between every delivery
Pitches are like husband!!! They keep slowing down!!!
His footwork is like a car in a traffic jam
His slower ball was so slow that my mama can run faster than that
The ball missed the bat like a kiss in a hindi movie
The Sri Lankans are running between the wickets as if their wives are chasing them with a belan
Indian Cricket is like Indian monsoon, when it rains it pours, or else there is Drought
Cricket is the game of glorious uncertainities! Glorious-When SriLankans play, Uncertain-when India play
In London they drive on the left, in India we drive on what is left
Indians should now be on their toes like midgets at a urinal
For the indians now it’s ‘fightback’ or ‘flightback’
Dravid has hit this shot as straight as a candle
Looks like a brooding hen over a china egg. Why a China egg? Because nothing will hatch out of it! (Commenting on Ganguly after he was out for a low score in the 2nd Test against Zimbabwe)
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm
Prasad beat a Sri Lankan batsman: “He opened him like a can of beans”.
Muralitharan bowling to the last Indian pair: “The wily fox is back. Its an ill omen when a fox licks its lambs”.
About the Zimbabwean batsmen: “Cats on a hot tin roof…”
Talking about the tail of the Indian batting order: “They are so timid, they wouldn’t say boo to a goose!”
I lean on statistics like a drunken man leans on a lamppost, only for support, not illumination.
Old fox need no tutor.
To catch a trout you have to loose a fly.
Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
A man can't be too careful in his choice of enemies.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives too easy.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The best way to predict your future is to create it
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.
To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Not failure, but low aim is a crime.
Winners don’t to different things rather they do differently.
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Troubles are like babies, the more you nurse them the bigger they grow.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
