Frank Woolley Quotes

"We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Play, Tradition)

"Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Time, Cricket)

"Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Abundance, Cricket, Day, Will)

"Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Worth)

"Lots of times I was out through forcing the game."
- Frank Woolley

"It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Policy, Winning, Day)

"In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Cricket, Now, Old)

"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Career)

"I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Opportunity, Cricket)

"It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket."
- Frank Woolley
(Related: Cricket, Day, Public)