Alastair Cook quotes

Alastair Cook quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
“I'm not a good guitar player.”
“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”
“I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.”
“... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.”
“It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.”
“Assumptions are dangerous things.”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
“...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.”

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