Trevor Bailey quotes
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“The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before”
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“The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.”
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“The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.”
-- Trevor BaileySource : "The Spinners' Web". Book by Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman, 1988.
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“There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa”
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“No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play”
-- Trevor Bailey
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“If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!”
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“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”
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Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.
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“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”
Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
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