qnli question: Who was incorrctly quoted in saying "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton"? sentence: According to Nevill (citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, "There grows the stuff that won Waterloo", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to "the manly character induced by games and sport" amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.