Trevor Bailey quotes

“The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before”
-- Trevor Bailey

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“The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.”
-- Trevor Bailey

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“The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.”
-- Trevor Bailey

Source : "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”
-- Trevor Bailey

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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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“It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.”

“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”

“If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!”

“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.

“Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.”

“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”

“Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.”

“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”

“The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.”