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Ian Botham

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

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

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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"

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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."

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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."

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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."

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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."

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"I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me."
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"There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects."
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"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."
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"To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport."
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