Fred Trueman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen
-- Fred Trueman

#Thinking #Things Happen
There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead
-- Fred Trueman

#Bigger
People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson
-- Fred Trueman

#People #Typhoons #Tyson
That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another
-- Fred Trueman

#Two #Cricket #Wit
England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country
-- Fred Trueman

#Mother #Country #England
To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.
-- Fred Trueman

#Heart #Needs #Bigs

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Play in curiosity is where everything happens.
One must be able to let things happen.
People who live in the now; those people make things happen.
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

Fred Trueman famous quotes

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