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I am still in shock to think that so much money is being put into West Indies cricket.


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IAN BRADSHAW Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players un...
CLIVE LLOYD We have to be hopeful that things can improve. It is pretty embarrassing the state that West Indies ...
BRIAN LARA I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
PETER ARNETT While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I ...
MONIQUE ROFFEY I always found him to be one of the people who helped the youngsters, especially at Empire Club. His...
SIR EVERTON WEEKES And Brian Lara can do that chore I believe. He's an intelligent player, he's an intelligent person, ...
SIR EVERTON WEEKES I believe the Cricket Committee will be conducting their discussions over the phone. But I expect, w...
JOEY CAREW I am still in shock. It's something that you dream of doing and its just so fulfilling,
LARRY BOWMAN I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you ...
GLENN TURNER In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or...
YUVRAJ SINGH If Australia had to go into the (West Indies) series without anything in the interim they would have...
IAN CHAPPELL Ken [Gordon] has asked me to serve as advisor to their finance committee. The West Indies Cricket Bo...
ALLEN STANFORD People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Everybody has a different answer. You hardly ever find anybody with the same choice, so we have to b...
JOEY CAREW I am really sorry to know that this happened to such a budding young player; I am still in a state o...
PATRICK THOMPSON I think he still has the bug. ... But I suggested to him that he may start making so much money that...
BILL LOCKYER I think he still has the ...
BILL LOCKYER I've put in so much effort that, now I have won this, I am so happy.
AMY YANG The state is not giving us money to do any of that. But, even if we did put millions of dollars into...
BOB HARMAN I couldn't speak. I was pretty much in shock. It was hard to believe that I was going to Turin. It s...
STEVE CASH It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being disc...
JOE MOORE I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changin...
JOHN C. REILLY I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
DALTON MCGUINTY I am still in shock about the whole thing, I am just shocked at how beautiful it was.
KYM HART Never in recent history has so much government money been put into so many programs with so little o...
JAMES WAGONER It's hard to put into words the disappointment and shock that it's all over now. I always thought I ...
COLE SCHMITZ They had a sustained fast-bowling attack that I haven't experienced since probably 1993 against the ...
JUSTIN LANGER Wavell Hinds is the one who presently best fulfils these criteria. If his record of five hundreds an...
TONY COZIER I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's re...
JERRY WEST I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without...
TERRY BROOKS We are still in too much shock to talk about it.
BARBARA MARTIN My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more imp...
SACHIN TENDULKAR The next phase of the market is in M&A activity, and the Fed moving to the sidelines will help with ...
JOE KEATING I think guys are still adjusting a little, but I think the shock of the move has worn off. I think e...
BYRON SCOTT I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st ce...
ALFONSO CUARON My father... sailed as a sea captain to the West Indies, where in 1785 I found light and life in the...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON I have absolutely no regrets coming to West Point. The military, I think, is a good fit for me. I am...
ANDY YAKULIS So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
DAVID STRATHAIRN I am still in a state of shock ... we did not get the result we deserved.
LOTHAR MATTHAEUS I can remember the last two series vividly - South Africa's home series here and the one in the West...
BRIAN LARA John is sure he's interested ? spoke to him about it during his trip to the West Indies last year,
MARK LATHAM We know what the West Indies are capable of. We are not looking at the rankings. The object is to de...
ANDY PYCROFT I think we have some capable batters. I think the youngsters are looking to put their stakes on the ...
WAVELL HINDS My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea
EDWARD CARSON I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside de...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazin...
BROOKE BURKE Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction ...
RIVER PHOENIX Every church must put its treasures into a safe-deposit box and issue common money, a common money o...
ATHENAGORAS I Consumption is still rising at a much slower pace than investment and people are still saving too mu...
BEN SIMPFENDORFER We think it's a terrific opportunity to take our West Coast production and put it into a single faci...
BOB EATON No, sir. I don't think so.
HERSCHEL WALKER The south-west is still much better value than the south-east, but there isn't so much of a differen...
GUY SHERRATT We gave them Clovis and we got Edison in Division I. Clovis West is really tough; they're so much be...
TIM AMUNDSEN England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in ...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I am totally in shock.
DAVID HURLEY Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still th...
KATHY GRIFFIN People think this will keep John Doe from being able to put huge amounts of money into a race. No, a...
DAN KIMBLE I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the...
UDAY KIRAN The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is ...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER These puppies go anywhere from $500 to $1000 -- whatever the market will bear -- and they haven't pu...
DAWN DANIELSON I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it lose...
NAT KING COLE I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skil...
RANDY MOSS This experience will be to his and the West Indies youth team's benefit for next month's Youth World...
JOEY CAREW I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going t...
SACHIN TENDULKAR I still think I am the greatest.
KANYE WEST I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL [Gayle's 56 was the standout effort of a disappointing display as West Indies slumped from 3 for 119...
CHRIS GAYLE Jamaica is a very experienced side. They have a few West Indies players. It is going to be a very co...
RYAN HINDS For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the ...
HAMISH BOWLES I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks.
CRAIG CALLAHAN We knew coming into this game how good he was. He's so fast and so strong … I don't know what happe...
BRIAN CUSHING I know coming in I didn't put any pressure on myself. I said, 'Just do what you're capable of doing ...
JASON SMITH Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez.
BILL NELSON The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - re...
AARON RODGERS We (West Indies) are due to visit England for Tests and One-Day matches immediately after the World ...
ROGER BRATHWAITE Cricket in Greece has prospects, but more money is needed, ... The children don't get to train very ...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. Wh...
RAHUL DRAVID I think she's less in shock than she was when first came in around Thanksgiving other than that, pre...
CRAIG KENNEDY Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I think if East can rebound, they have the speed to run with West. I don't put any stock into West s...
PAT MCNAMARA I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. ...
RICKY PONTING I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
PAUL HARVEY I am surprised. Yes sir, I am.
PAUL FORD I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or t...
C. JOYBELL C. Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, ...
HENRY MARTYN It isn't the big drop in competitive level that the average fan might think. And the MAC gives Templ...
BILL BRADSHAW I was first an indie actor, so I also want that more opportunities be given to people in the indies.
COCO MARTIN I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually bett...
STIEG LARSSON I will concentrate on one-day cricket only because too much cricket is affecting my overall performa...
SHAHID AFRIDI Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't...
JOHN GREEN People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much...
RUTH PORAT Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.
GEORGIA SALPA Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
ENYA I love my life right now. I am back performing and I have a family. My work is being fixed around my...
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SIR JOHN VANBRUGH When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
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