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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.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
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I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Australia
Concern
England
I Think
Test
Think
Two
Will
Win
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If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Bat
Batting
Field
Get
Had
Him
Hit
Me
Off
Tried
Well
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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.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
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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.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Analyse
Benefit
Depended
Doing
Faults
Game
Had
Look
Never
Other
Our
Playing
Techniques
Tell
Then
Thought
TV
Us
Video
Watch
Were
Wrong
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A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club - I always have done and always will.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
About
Along
Always
Been
Care
Club
Course
Cricket
Done
Energy
Has-Been
I Care
Issues
Know
Life
Lot
Made
Mistakes
My Life
Out
Passionately
Problems
Spent
Wasted
Way
Will
Yorkshire
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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Boycott
Caused
Committee
Could
Decisions
Did
If I Could
Make
Me
Nonsense
People
Personally
Power
Say
Stand
Started
Take
They Say
Those
Trouble
Unrest
Were
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During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Absence
Again
Available
Batting
Being
Being There
Committee
Country
Couple
Decided
England
Losing
Lost
Make
Matches
Me
Myself
Play
Should
Telling
Test
Then
Time
Were
Yorkshire
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Emma wasn't bothered about the fact that I was a 'celebrity', held in high esteem by millions of cricket fans around the world. As far as she was concerned, I was just her dad, and she believed that role should take priority over anything else.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
About
Anything
Anything Else
Around
As Far As
Believed
Bothered
Celebrity
Concerned
Cricket
Dad
Else
Esteem
Fact
Fans
Far
Held
Her
High
Just
Millions
Over
Priority
Role
She
Should
Take
World
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Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Centuries
Get
Good
Hundred
Influential
Innings
Might
Mind
Notice
People
React
Scores
Stick
Valuable
Who
Will
You
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I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Achieve
Agree
Approach
Best
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Failing
Get
Intentional
Just
Life
Much
Myself
Never
Out
People
Possible
Result
Single-Minded
Unfortunate
Upset
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I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
About
Always
Club
County
Doing
Had
History
Loved
Made
Me
Members
Passionate
People
Players
Playing
Rulers
Running
Seemingly
Times
Unbearable
Wanted
Were
Whim
Who
Yorkshire
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I don't think anybody can totally change what they are. I'd always been a strident individual, but cancer does smooth off a lot of the edges. I have been lucky to have survived an extra 12 years of my life with my wife and daughter.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Always
Anybody
Been
Cancer
Change
Daughter
Does
Edges
Extra
Individual
Life
Lot
Lucky
My Life
Off
Smooth
Survived
Think
Totally
Wife
Years
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I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Contact
Eyes
Football
Glasses
Go
Had
Leeds
Lenses
Played
Started
United
Wear
Were
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I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Circumstances
Close
Concentrate
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Could
County
Effort
Gluttony
Half
Hour
Long
Long Periods
Longer
Make
Minutes
Most
Myself
Net
Nets
Periods
Practice
Real
Real Thing
Reason
So-Called
Stay
Stick
Than
Them
Thing
Time
Tried
Would
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I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Animal
Bar
Committee
Could
Cricket
Down
Drinks
Feel
Focused
Important
Make
Men
Necks
Political
Political Animal
Pour
Them
Too
Up
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I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Batting
Chess
Cricket
Dry
Game
Good
Important
Interesting
Less
Like
Love
Match
Means
Over
Pieces
Pitches
See
Start
Turn
Two
Very
Which
Will
Without
World
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I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Ambition
Exceptional
Known
Man
People
Some
Spurs
Talent
Wasted
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My mind became so frazzled by the end of the 1974 season that I decided the thing to do was give up playing for England and concentrate on Yorkshire. I felt the only way to succeed was to captain and play every match for Yorkshire.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Became
Captain
Concentrate
Decided
End
England
Every
Felt
Give
Match
Mind
Only
Play
Playing
Season
Succeed
Thing
Up
Way
Yorkshire
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Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Cancer
Get
Got
Had
Killer
Life
My Life
Once
Out
Realised
Stress
Throat
Tongue
Try
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