Tony Greig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.
-- Tony Greig

#Country #People #Trying
A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England
-- Tony Greig

#Skills #Balls #Faces
Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.
-- Tony Greig

#Thinking #Would Be #World
I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.
-- Tony Greig

#People #Mets #Angry
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
-- Tony Greig

#Team #Two #People
Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.
-- Tony Greig

#Team #Assistants #Lawyer
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.
-- Tony Greig

#Years #Would Be #Asking
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.
-- Tony Greig

#Issues #People #Decision
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
-- Tony Greig

#Police #London #England
You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You dont have to go through the normal extradition process.
-- Tony Greig

#Country #Hands #Over You
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
-- Tony Greig

#Anger #Taken #Years
Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do
-- Tony Greig

#Games #Play #West

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