Frank Woolley Quotations

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

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.

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.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

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.

We were never allowed to play for averages in the Kent side or take half an hour or more to get the last ten runs under normal conditions.

As a matter of fact I consider the two finest innings I ever played were in the second Test against Australia in 1921 when I was out for 95 and 93.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.