Ian Botham Quotes

• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important.

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• Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

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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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  Tags in Think, Exciting, Best

• Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

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  Tags in Time, Ahead

• 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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  Tags in Active, Remember, Wanting

• 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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  Tags in People, Expect, Morning, Working

• I think I’d struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

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• I’m not a great one for looking back.

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

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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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  Tags in Good, Myself, Difficult, Standard

• 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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  Tags in Player, Interested, Profession

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

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  Tags in Together, Communities

• 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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  Tags in People, Understand

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

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  Tags in Exciting, Sport, Nothing

• 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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  Tags in People, Believer, Better, Great

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Playing, Matter, Enjoy

• 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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  Tags in Happened, Better, Tomorrow

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

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  Tags in Ultimate, Sport

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

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Ian Botham (22)

Birth:	24th November, 1955
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Cricketer

About

Ian Botham is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy". While at times a controversial player both on and off the field, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

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