David English Quotations

Olivia and James, Joe and Tom had a field day playing cricket in the garden of the villa against Uncle Fred, with a hard rubber ball, ... Freddie is brilliant with kids.

I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant.

He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.

He is always ringing me up and telling me stories. He is such a great foil for the England boys. He draws from all the others and then comes in with the craic. This England team have a bond, the bond of Bunbury.

He looked at me and just shook his head. I said, 'How much free rent do you want?' But the guy just walked away.

I was like it's just like the playoff game. Keep trucking, keep trucking.

Jon Beranek and Ryan Skriver worked their butts off. Jon Beranek stepped up huge. I'll tell you what, late in the fourth quarter he bent over backward. I thought his knee was gone. He gets up and 'I'm fine. Let's go.' That's how you play West Branch football.

I was having a nap by the swimming pool and was awoken by this huge hand holding my wrist. I looked up and this gorilla-like shape had blocked out the sunlight. It was Freddie. 'It's alright, it's Freddie. I've never seen you quiet for so long David and I was just checking you still had a pulse,' Freddie told me.

I was excited, ... I was trying to get a computer because it would be the only computer I ever had of my own.

We had our break-out quarter in that second period. We had been stuck at about $8 million in quarterly revenue, and then in the second quarter we hit $11.6 million.

There has never been any fawning, nothing sycophantic about the way I treat people and I think they appreciate that.

We need to get back on a winning track. We lost a tough one, and then we've gotten beat pretty soundly these last two games. So, we just need to get things back on track.

You go to a Green House and you see life. It's a place for people to come and thrive. We want to make, perhaps, their latter years their best years.

Flintoff, Trescothick, Vaughan, Bell, Giles, Hoggard, Harmison and Simon Jones all see me as a father figure.

I spoke to Freddie about it, and he agreed immediately to put his name on it. He thought it was a brilliant idea, and he will play a part in being the young sportsperson's mentor.

The Bunbury Festival has been like a conveyor belt for England cricketers - and is the start of the production line. The minute we meet - on the first day of the Bunbury Festival, they get the speech and a handshake, and their Bunbury adventure starts. They become Bunburys for life.

There was Vaughany in 1990 collar up, very calm, tall, dignified, imposing and already cerebral at the age of 15, long and angular, but always with a jokey disposition,

It's a dream come true. He makes his reads; he runs people over.

The festival in 1992, held at Charterhouse, was the best year we had. That year, Andrew Flintoff, Liam Botham, Gareth Batty, David Sales, Alex Tudor, Ben Hollioake, David Nash and Owais Shah made it through. They had the same camaraderie that there is now in the England side.

I do genuinely feel like a father to them all. I've known them all, man and boy. Michael Vaughan rings me every week, Marcus Trescothick calls me a couple of times a week from his car, Ian Bell calls and Freddie Flintoff sends me texts. I then ring him back because I'm not up with text messaging. They all stay in touch.