Jayawardene Quotes & Sayings

our ability to live joyful and successful lives depends on our ability to adapt. — Susan Stiffelman

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz. — Mahela Jayawardene

This idea of starting at the bottom and working one's way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this - too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. It should be remembered, also, that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off. And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By so doing one forms the habit of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing opportunity, and of embracing it without hesitation. — Napoleon Hill

Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does. — Gurinder Chadha

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. — John Moody

One can't begin the new until they let go of the old. — C.C. Hunter

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end. — Larry Merchant

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. — Marc Jacobs

There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.. — Mahela Jayawardene

never makes me talk to him. I don't know — John Green

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values). — Jane Goodall

My favorite activity is conscience dreaming. — Jared Lee Loughner

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

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston. — Greg Fitzsimmons

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. — Lou Gehrig

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

It's like, take my body, fine, I wasn't really using it anyway. I've got this enormous butt on ostrich legs, the hair of a "before" picture, and weird milky brown eyes like a Frappuccino. But not my brain. My true connection to the world. — Lara Avery

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

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me. — Marjorie Holmes

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

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka. — Mahela Jayawardene