"For many sportsmen, coming face to face with……" — Ian Botham
"For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others."
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30 Quotes by Ian Botham
Ian Botham has 30 quotes on this site.
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day…
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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in…
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving…
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs…
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Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
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I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies
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Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
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I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the…
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Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
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All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse…
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always…
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a…
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