Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Richie Benaud

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian athlete Richie Benaud.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Richard Benaud was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.

Australian - Athlete | October 6, 1930 - April 10, 2015

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Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

Richie Benaud

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

Richie Benaud

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.

Richie Benaud

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Richie Benaud

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Richie Benaud

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

Richie Benaud

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Richie Benaud

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Richie Benaud

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Richie Benaud

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

Richie Benaud

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

Richie Benaud

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

Richie Benaud

'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.

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The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

Richie Benaud

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Richie Benaud

Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.

Richie Benaud

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Richie Benaud

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

Richie Benaud

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

Richie Benaud

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

Richie Benaud

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

Richie Benaud

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

Richie Benaud

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

Richie Benaud

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

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Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

Richie Benaud

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

Richie Benaud