Ian Botham famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Sports #Winning #Squash
A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos
-- Ian Botham

#Years #England #Beats
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes
-- Ian Botham

#Sports #Country #Two
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

#Bad Day #People #Village
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

#Soccer #Sports #Growing Up
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
-- Ian Botham

#Faces #Moments #Mortality
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

#Tunnels #Light #Achieve
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

#Team #Thinking #Two
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

#Tomorrow
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions
-- Ian Botham

#Sports #Community #Together
I'm not a great one for looking back.
-- Ian Botham

#Looking Back
Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
-- Ian Botham

#Men #Way
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
-- Ian Botham

#Struggle #Swimming #Thinking
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

#Morning #People #Work Out
If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.
-- Ian Botham

#Walks
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport
-- Ian Botham

#Sports #Winning #Australia
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
-- Ian Botham

#Change #Three #Hundred
I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies
-- Ian Botham

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

#Mother #Men #Law
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

#Beer #Thinking #Years
Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
-- Ian Botham

#Bats #Rudolph #Moments
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

#People #Ashes #Trends
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

#Football #Running #Golf
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

#Country #Children #Alcohol
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me
-- Ian Botham

#Children #Dying #Stay With Me
Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
-- Ian Botham

#Country #Empty #Bigs

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