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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: Centuries Get Good Hundred Influential Innings Might Mind Notice People React Scores Stick Valuable Who Will You

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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

Topics: 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 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

Topics: 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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Athlete

Born: October 21st, 1940

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