Ian Botham Quotes
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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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A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions
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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 cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
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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 registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.
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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 will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test
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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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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes
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Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
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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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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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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 you do? Talk to your teammates.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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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 the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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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 law.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me
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The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.
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I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.
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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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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport
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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
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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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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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Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
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You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
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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.
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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
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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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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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