"Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession."

-- Ian Botham

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“The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.”
“The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.”
“What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.”

Source : Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
“The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.”
“You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.”
“Blessed are the powers that grant me magic. I promise to use their gift well. To help mend my world. To help mend all worlds. And should I forget to mend, Should I refuse to mend, Still I will remember To do no harm.”

Source : Janni Lee Simner (2013). “Faerie After: Book 3 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy”, p.258, Random House Books for Young Readers
“I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.”
“Iâ€™m concerned that if one of those two areas doesnâ€™t play up to par â€“ if they give up some points or they canâ€™t run the football â€“ and it gets stuck on Russell Wilsonâ€™s shouldersâ€¦if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, thatâ€™s where I worry.”

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