“I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee me...” — Geoffrey Boycott Quote

“I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.”

“I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.”

“I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.”

“The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.”

“Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.”