To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive a…

- Ian Botham

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

- Ian Botham

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

- Ian Botham

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

- Ian Botham

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

- Ian Botham

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

- Ian Botham

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

- Ian Botham

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

- Ian Botham

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here

- Ian Botham