David Gower Quotes

#1. As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

David Gower

#2. I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

David Hockney

#3. Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.

David Gower

#4. You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

David Gower

#5. Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34.

Felix Wantang

#6. It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

David Gower

#7. He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

David Gower

#8. The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

David Gower

#9. Humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law..

Ayn Rand

#10. Someone had to laugh, and I was pretty much the only one who got me. It was a lonely life.

Darynda Jones

#11. They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

David Gower

#12. I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

David Gower

#14. Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.

Jon Champion

#15. I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

Bret Easton Ellis

#16. The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

Adyashanti

#17. When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

Sigourney Weaver

#18. I cannot believe that you're still a girl. Your kisses don't seem that innocent. They are driving me crazy.

Olga Goa

#19. The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

#20. People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.

David Gower

#21. Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects.

Julie Kagawa

#22. So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

David Gower

#23. You are an irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind, amazing being. There will never be another you and this fact alone makes you infinitely and absolutely valuable. Having absolute value means you cannot be diminished by anything or anyone. You are bulletproof and nothing can change your value.

Kimberly Giles

#24. The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

David Gower

#25. The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

David Gower

#26. I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

Zack Snyder