And life is a game of Cricket too, where , at times, you have to let your anger go without touching it - have patience for conditions to change in your favour...
From the viewpoint of speed, I think, for the better future psychological state of affairs of we, the ambitious lot, that life should better be metaphorically compared with the slower game of Cricket ( We take 50 over match as model as Test Matches will be too slow and Football matches too fast )