Top 20 Quotes by Ian Botham

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

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.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

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.

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.

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

I'm not a great one for looking back.

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

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

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.