Talk:Navjot Singh Sidhu

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• 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 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.
• A man can't be too careful in his choice of enemies.
• 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 pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
• A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.
• A recession is where you have to tighten your belt.
• 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.
• About the Zimbabwean batsmen: "Cats on a hot tin roof…"
• Advice is like a laxative, very easy to take in, very difficult to predict the outcome
• 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.
• Age is the best fire extinguisher for the fire called youth...
• All that comes from a cow is not milk.
• Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm
• As innocent as freshly laid eggs. (About Atal Behari Vajpayee.)
• As safe as a bucket ( for a fielder taking a catch successfully)
• Bad habits are like comfy beds - easy to get into, very difficult to get out of.
• Beauty even when silent is eloquent.
• Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
• 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.
• Commentary with Harsh Bhogle: Why murder a man who is about to commit suicide.
• 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!
• 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).
• Courage is not the absence of fear;it is the CONQUEST of fear!
• Cricket is the game of glorious uncertainities! Glorious- When Tendulkar plays, Uncertain- when the rest of the team plays
• Curry is a worry.
• Disappointments need to be cremated, not embalmed.
• Distance between Earth and Heaven is not a matter of altitude but attitude.
• Do not handicap your children by making their lives too easy.
• Don’t die until you’re dead.
• Dravid has hit this shot as straight as a candle
• 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.
• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
• 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.
• Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
• Faith in your abilities will help you face the music, even if you don’t like the tune.
• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
• 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!
• For the indians now it’s ‘fightback’ or ‘flightback’
• For the indians now it's 'fightback' or 'flightback'
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
• Gamblers are like toilets - broke one day, flush the next.
• Good deeds speak for themselves, the tongue only speaks of their eloquence.
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
• Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.
• He flew like a bird and plucked it out of thin air.
• He flew like a bird and plucked it out of thin air. (On Indian fielder Sadagopan Ramesh's diving catch against Sri Lanka)
• He has either got to tighten his belt or lose his pants.
• He hit the ball in air; which kisses the air hostess. (On Tendulkar hitting a six, India vs England, 2002). Variant: The ball was hit so high that it kissed the air-hostess on its way back to the ground.
• He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition
• 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)
• He looks as confused as a child in a topless-bar.
• He looks at the umpire as innocent as a freshly laid egg.
• 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 shredded that into smithereens
• He's like a tornado - he can really blow you off your feet.
• He's shredded that into smithereens
• He's shredded that into smithereens (On Rahul Dravid hitting a boundary, India v England, 2002)
• His footwork is like a car in a traffic jam
• His mind is on the boisterous sea of doubt.
• His slower ball was so slow that my mama can run faster than that
• Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
• Hope is the elixir of life.
• Hurry is a worry.
• 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.
• I lean on statistics like a drunken man leans on a lamppost, only for support, not illumination
• Ideas are funny things - they don’t work unless you do.
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
• If fate gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
• If ifs and ands are like pots and pans, there would be no tinkers.
• If my auntie had been a man she would have been my uncle
• If one-day cricket was pajama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.
• If the heavens throw you a date, open your mouth.
• If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
• 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 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?
• In life, as in chess, it is foresight which will win.
• In London they drive on the left, in India we drive on what is left
• In times of prosperity, friends are aplenty; in times of poverty, not one in twenty.
• In times of prosperity, remember it's the fattest pig that goes to the butcher.
• Indian Cricket is like Indian monsoon, when it rains it pours, or else there is Drought
• Indians should now be on their toes like midgets at a urinal
• 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.
• 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.
• It's better to prevent and prepare than to repent and repair.
• It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the smart one.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• Muralitharan bowling to the last Indian pair: "The wily fox is back. Its an ill omen when a fox licks its lambs".
• My idea of a bird is 36-24-36.
• Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
• Never let your memories be greater than your dreams
• Never miss a good chance to shut up.
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
• 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)
• Next to good judgment, diamonds and pearls are the next rarest thing.
• No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
• Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two
• Not failure, but low aim is a crime.
• Old fox need no tutor.
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests
• Optimist is the one who looks at bullshit and sees fertilizer.
• Optimist is the one who looks at cow dung and sees fertilizer.
• Patience is the greatest of all shock-absorbers.
• Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet!
• Penny and penny will make many.
• Pitches are like husband!!! They keep slowing down!!!
• Pitches are like wives - you never know which way they’ll turn.
• Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• Prasad beat a Sri Lankan batsman: "He opened him like a can of beans".
• 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.
• 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.
• Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
• Some students will drink from the fountain of knowledge - others will simply gargle.
• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
• 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.
• 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 80% attitude and 20% aptitude
• Success is a matter of luck and pluck.
• Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.
• Success is the fruit of concentration.
• Talent is nothing if it’s not controlled, harnessed and disciplined.
• Talking about the tail of the Indian batting order: “They are so timid, they wouldn’t say boo to a goose!”
• 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 missed the bat like a kiss in a hindi movie
• 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 best way to predict your future is to create it
• 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 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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
• The horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
• 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 journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
• 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 limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
• The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.
• The only thing you get in life without effort is dandruff.
• The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
• The Sri Lankans are running between the wickets as if their wives are chasing them with a belan
• 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 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.
• There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
• There is no failure except in no longer trying.
• There is no fruit without the root.
• There’s free cheese in a mousetrap.
• There's always light at the end of the tunnel, my friend, but beware, it may be that of an oncoming train.
• 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 bowler bowls so slow that the batsmen have enough time to call home and talk to their wives between every delivery
• 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.
• Those who fail to prepare should be prepared to fail.
• To achieve, you have to believe.
• To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
• 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.
• Warne is a victim of his own success. He has taken to women the way an ostrich takes to the skies
• 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.
• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
• 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 everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
• When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.
• 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 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 give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
• 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.
• When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
• 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)
• Winners don’t to different things rather they do differently.
• 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 take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the tiger.
• You can't get blood out of a turnip.
• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
• You can't prevent the consequences of your mistakes.
• You can't squeeze toothpaste back into the tube.
• You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
• You’ve got to put the saddle on the right horse.
• Your originality is your strength.
• You've got to put the saddle on the right horse.