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“Think of it in terms of your job. If you’re going to work every day, slogging away for hours for people you regard as jokers, it is understandable if your work suffers. If you’re lucky enough to work for people you respect, you’ll go that little bit further and it won’t be a chore.”
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
“I asked Gordon Greenidge why the fans were being so hostile. He explained how they were desperate for us to win because being a West Indian in a different country could be hard, particularly in England at the time. Most felt like second-class citizens and they wanted to walk around with their heads held high because their countrymen had shown on the field of play what they were capable of. A winning West Indies team meant they didn’t have to worry about getting the mickey taken out of them when they went to work.”
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
“Greig had made himself a target. His ill-judged comments at the start of the series that he would make us ‘grovel’ riled us to the extent that we needed no further motivation. It was an extremely insensitive remark to make about a largely black team. Remember he was a white South African, qualified for England only via his parents, and to make such a statement sent the wrong message, pure and simple. We saw nothing else.”
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
― No Holding Back: The Autobiography
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