Tony Greig Quotes

#1. How you get from an unanticipated football hand-off to potential hospitalization, I have no idea.

Greg Sestero

#2. I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

Tony Greig

#3. I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

Hamilcar Barca

#4. To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

Gillian Flynn

#5. There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

Fred Trueman

#6. Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

Tony Greig

#7. And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

Tony Greig

#8. Now in many cases - too many cases - the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

John Dewey

#9. One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

Tony Greig

#10. I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid,

Miley Cyrus

#11. The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Tony Greig

#12. I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

Tony Greig

#13. I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

Tony Greig

#14. Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

Tony Greig

#15. Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Tony Greig

#16. It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened and I tried to run and keep fighting and I kept swinging in the third, fourth and fifth sets.

Nikolay Davydenko

#17. Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Tony Greig

#18. THIRTEEN GREAT ICONS FELL FROM THE SKY, WHEN THEY CAME ALIVE, SIX CITIES DIED. REMEMBER 6/6. THE PROJECTS ARE SLAVERY. WE ARE NOT FREE. SILENCE IS NOT PEACE. REMEMBER THE DAY. DEATH TO THE SYMPAS, DEATH TO THE LORDS. DESTROY THE ICONS. REMEMBER.

Margaret Stohl

#19. Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Tony Greig

#20. The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

Tony Greig

#21. A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

Tony Greig

#22. and he seemed to remember himself, and said: "We found something else, though.

Ransom Riggs

#23. Why don't you come with me to the station? We can talk, and I'll treat you to a bad cup of coffee."
"You make it sound pretty tempting.

Lisa Kessler

#24. You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

Tony Greig

#25. Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

Humphry Davy

#26. Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do

Tony Greig