Ian Botham Quotes

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.

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies

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

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

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

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.

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

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

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

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.

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

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

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.

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.

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