Geoff Boycott quotes

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. (Geoff Boycott)
(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.
Geoff Boycott
I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.
Geoff Boycott
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
Geoff Boycott
Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
Geoff Boycott
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
Geoff Boycott
If my mum was alive she could captain England to play West Indies... hopeless, aren't they?
Geoff Boycott
My tactic would be to take a quick single and observe him from the other end.
Geoff Boycott
He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.
Geoff Boycott
We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
Geoff Boycott
This idea that umpires are always right is a load of old cobblers. What I want to know is: Who umpires the umpires? The players suffer from their mistakes, but no one ever seems to get rid of the umpires themselves. Being an umpire is a people job: that's why Dickie Bird was good at it. Yes, he was a loony, and he made mistakes - everyone does. But he knew how to deal with people, so they respected him. (Geoff Boycott)
They should cut Joel Garner off at the knees to make him bowl at a normal height.
Geoff Boycott
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
Geoff Boycott
He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.
Geoff Boycott
He's a lovely guy, that Ricky Ponting. He likes the English so much he changed the series for them with the most stupid decision he'll ever make in his life.
Geoff Boycott