Quotes by Ian Botham - Page 1

I'm not a great one for looking back.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Great Ones
Looking Back
Great Looking Back Looking
Great One
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Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Bigs
Country
Empty
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If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Ifs
Walks
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Churchill
Table
Winston
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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Men
Fascinating
Way
Ahead
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Struggle
Swimming
Thinking
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The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Bigs
Cricket
Play
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Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Cricket
Games
Ruins
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A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos
Ian Botham / Cricketer
England
Years
Years Ago
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Children
Dying
Stay With Me
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Dying
Watched
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Sports
Community
Together
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Release
Communities
Emotions
Sport
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Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Bats
Moments
Rudolph
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Sports
Australia
Winning
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Australia
Ultimate
Sport
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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?
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Change
Smile
Gambling
Hundred
Three
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I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Games
Stress
Umpires
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Faces
Reason Why
Wife
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Sports
Country
Two
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Men
Law
Mother
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Ashes
World Nothing More
Battling
Sport
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Beer
Thinking
Years
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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
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Happened
Tomorrow
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Happened
Tomorrow
Why
After
Make
Here
Day
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Faces
Moments
Mortality
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Decision
Player
Village
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Ashes
People
Trends
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Believer
Resilience
Sooner
Sport
Great Believer
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Running
Active
Cricket
Football
Golf
Mad
Age Always Football
Play Golf
Wanting
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Bad Day
People
Village
Your Day People
Teammates
Day Bad People
Turned
Villages
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Positive
Sports
Competing
Cricket
Enjoy
Matter
Squash
Winning
Positive Good Me
Good Sports Me
Try
Win
How
Whatever
Sport
Playing
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Morning
Cricket
People
Work Out
Began
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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
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Team
Thinking
Two
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Cricket
England
Teams
Test
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Capable
Difficult
End Of The Tunnel
Light
Retirement
Retiring
Standards
Tunnels
Time Good Myself
Achieving
Set
Longer
Tunnel
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Sports
Chosen
Clubs
Cricket
Growing Up
Profession
Soccer
Trials
Became
Interested
Crystal
Main
Palace
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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
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Alcohol
Children
Country
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Ifs
Rely
Thorough
Politics Work Done
Buts
Ensure
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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.
Ian Botham / Cricketer
Older Generation
Prove
Stability
Younger Generation
Younger
Attract
Future Look People
Tougher
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