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Top 25 Ian Botham Quotes (2025 Update)

Ian Botham Quote: “What’s happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That’s why we’re here.”

1. “What’s happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That’s why we’re here.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.”

2. “Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.”

3. “Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.”

4. “Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I don’t ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there’s no reason why I should be changing nappies.”

5. “I don’t ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there’s no reason why I should be changing nappies.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.”

6. “Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.”

Ian Botham Quote: “If I’d done a quarter of the things of which I’m accused, I’d be pickled in alcohol, I’d be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world’s cricket-playing countries.”

7. “If I’d done a quarter of the things of which I’m accused, I’d be pickled in alcohol, I’d be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world’s cricket-playing countries.”

Ian Botham Quote: “To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.”

8. “To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.”

9. “Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.”

Ian Botham Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “I don’t think I’ve actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it’s the law.”

11. “I don’t think I’ve actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it’s the law.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.”

12. “I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”

13. “I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Retiring for good wasn’t difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.”

14. “Retiring for good wasn’t difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.”

15. “I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I’m not a great one for looking back.”

16. “I’m not a great one for looking back.”

Ian Botham Quote: “You wouldn’t see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.”

17. “You wouldn’t see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.”

18. “I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.”

Ian Botham Quote: “For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.”

19. “For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.”

Ian Botham Quote: “Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.”

20. “Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.”

Ian Botham Quote: “The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.”

21. “The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.”

22. “I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.”

Ian Botham Quote: “All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.”

23. “All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.”

Ian Botham Quote: “If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?”

24. “If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?”

Ian Botham Quote: “A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos.”

25. “A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos.”

Ian Botham Quote: “If you’re playing against the Australians, you don’t walk.”

26. “If you’re playing against the Australians, you don’t walk.”

Ian Botham Quote: “I think I’d struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.”

27. “I think I’d struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.”

Ian Botham Quote: “There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.”

28. “There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.”

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