Talk:Navjot Singh Sidhu

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• As safe as a bucket ( for a fielder taking a catch successfully)
• 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 hair on the head is worth two on the comb for you, my friend (at Geoffery Boycott).
• 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.
• 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 colour to suit his surroundings.
• Age is the perfect extinguisher for the fire of youth.
• 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.
• Confidence of Dravid grows in the garden of patience (referring to a slow knock of Rahul Dravid).
• Curry is a worry.
• Disappointments need to be cremated, not embalmed.
• Don't die until you're dead.
• Easy to criticise 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 comb life gives you when you are bald.
• 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 looks as confused as a child in a topless-bar.
• He moved like a heavy duty truck (when a fielder dropped a catch due to his slow reaction)
• He who ceases to praise ceases to prosper.
• He who desires a farm must have an old cock and a young bull.
• 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
  • (On Rahul Dravid hitting a boundary, India v England, 2002)
• He hit the ball in air; which kisses the air hostess.
  • (On Tendulkar hitting a six, India vs England, 2002)
• He flew like a bird and plucked it out of thin air.
  • (On Indian fielder Sadagopan Ramesh's diving catch against Sri Lanka)
• He is like Indian three-wheeler which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30!
  • (On Sri Lankan batsman Romesh Kaluwitharna who was wasting balls without making runs)
• 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 pyjama 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.
• If ifs and ands are like pots and pans, there would be no tinkers.
• 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.
• In times of prosperity, friends are aplenty; in times of poverty, not one in twenty.
• 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's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the smart one.
• It's better to prevent and prepare than to repent and repair.
• Its very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent upon committing suicide!
• 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 Geoffrey 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 cow dung 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 (or bikinis). 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 batsman is like an Indian three-wheeler - sucking a lot of diesel but can't go beyond 30.
• 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.( In response to balling on the offline to Sourav Ganguly)
• 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
• There's always light at the end of the tunnel, my friend, but beware, it may be that of an oncoming train.
• The longer the rope, the tighter the noose.
• The horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
• 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 is no fruit without the root.
• There's free cheese in a mousetrap.
• They are like brooding hens on top of a china egg (quoting Michael Foot)
• They must either stand up and be counted, or lie down and be counted out.
• They're trying to make a whistle sound like a trumpet.
• This is a batsman who is as erratic as the electricity supply in most parts of India.
• Those openers are like nappies, and changed for the same reason.
• Those who fail to prepare should be prepared to fail.
• 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't get blood out of a turnip.
• 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 auntie 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 Tendulkar plays, Uncertain- when the rest of the team plays
• 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
• Commenting on Ganguly after he was out for a low score in the 2nd Test against Zimbabwe:

…Looks like a brooding hen over a china egg. Why a China egg? Because nothing will hatch out of it!

• 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
• Advice is like a laxative, very easy to take in, very difficult to predict the outcome