Praise the sports of the land And water, each oneö The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the seaö But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.

-Reid,Thomas Mayne
  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.

-Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).