Ian Botham Quotes

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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do…
• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy…
• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself…
• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one,…
• Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
• I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies
• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
• I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
• Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
• All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.
• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another,…
• If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would…
• A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos
• I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me
• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes
• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport
• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England…
• What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here
• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions
• I'm not a great one for looking back.

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