Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.

Geoffrey Boycott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 21, 1940

Topics

SuccessFailureCricketMagicOwn

I'm the longest-serving secretary of state in Illinois, but I also want to go down in history as one of the best they've ever had. I will work every day toward that.

Jesse White

WorkHistoryBestDayDownWant

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.

Maxine Peake

PowerTimeGreenSingingBootsRock

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

Robert Crais

HappyDogsRolesFulfill

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

RuPaul

LoveSuccessExperienceCreativeEnd

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

PersonalitySituationDifferentWho

The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.

Jose Padilha

WorkBestWritingStoryThinkWorry

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Derek Walcott

BeautifulI AmPoetryPeopleFashion

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.

Chris Smith

ColleaguesDownLaborUnderstand

St. Andrews is my favorite place to play golf. I've said it many times. I love the design. I love how there is always a bunker in play. And every time you play, it is always a little bit different. There are so many angles out there. It is beautifully designed. And so much fun to play.

Brooks Koepka

LoveTimeFunDesignGolfYou

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

Alison Krauss

LifeNatureGoodAcceptanceYourself

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

WorkStartYouLoseDesireYour

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Tom Brady

LoveLongYouPlayKnowYoung

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