Ian Botham Quotes

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

I love doing research.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

We'll have all sorts of crazy signals. And you'd be a damned fool if you didn't look for things you weren't expecting, because that's probably what you're going to see first.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

I keep six honest serving men.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.