David English Quotes (11 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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

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.

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.