Ian Botham ,quotes

Sport can bring communities t...

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

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If I'd done a quarter of the ...

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 have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

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A few years ago England would...

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

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Jacques Rudolph at the moment...

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

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I watched children dying. Tha...

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

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Pakistan is the sort of place...

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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For many sportsmen, coming fa...

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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To me, it doesn't matter how ...

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 it, be positive and try to win.

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Retiring for good wasn't diff...

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 and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

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You will attract the younger ...

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

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I want to stress again one as...

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

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To win in Australia, for me, ...

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

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I think I'd struggle to get e...

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

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I can remember running around...

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, driving my parents mad.

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Winston Churchill would be gr...

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

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I half knew what to expect wh...

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

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There will be no politics, no...

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

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Soccer and cricket were my ma...

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, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

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If you can change three lives...

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

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The resilience of these peopl...

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

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