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
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better. – Ian Botham
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, thats got to be good, hasnt it? – Ian Botham
To me, it doesnt matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. – Ian Botham
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”