Six Machine: I Don't Like Cricket ... I Love It by Chris Gayle

Author:Chris Gayle [Gayle, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
ISBN: 9780241256350
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-06-01T14:00:00+00:00

9. 65 Not Out

Where I come from, what I have seen, you give thanks for money and you give thanks for fame. Because they get you through – out of one life and into another, and when you’ve lived the experiences I have, there is no romance in staying where you were, no misty eyes and no false memories of how it used to be.

But it comes at price. A man who was once open must become a closed book. A boy who trusted all around him must now keep his mind and emotions under lock and key.

No one is out there for love. People will come around you for what they can gain or what they can get from you. Maybe things are different for you. I hope so. Personally, I can maybe count the loyal people on one hand. One hand. And not even five fingers. That’s how it is.

They say more money more problem, and that is true. So, so true. If you come from where I from, you’ll take those problems over your old ones. But you have to work out how you’re going to deal with them, for they can chew a man up and leave him with nowhere to turn and no faith in nobody. You see something happen again and again, and you know what to expect.

And I know what life is all about and what life is like. I travel the world, and I know what to expect.

I’ve heard the prettiest talk. I’ve heard the sucker talk. You come to learn when somebody is trying to get something out of you. Mi bin tru it all.

In response I show no emotion or expression to let them feel any better. When they finish their talk I say, ‘Okay, I’ll get back to you.’ I’ll get back to you on that. Because so many of these talkers are just bull-shitters, and I can read that now, I can see it in eyes and hear it on lips.

It’s always been like that. You live and you learn. I’ve seen players who have been through a lot. Who have had bad men do bad things to them, and so have appointed agents, and had agents screw them over. I’m glad I came at the right time to see those things, because I can use them as a guideline, and I can use them as experience when the same things happen to me.

Because I have been let down. I’ve been let down by family members. You ask them to do certain things, and they just go and do the total opposite. Within the family I’ve been let down for sure.

It hurts you at the time, and it hurts you for a while afterwards. How do you not get more suspicious of everyone else when that happens?

The first time I hear the name Allen Stanford, I hear only good.

A big man from Texas. A billionaire come to play in the Caribbean, but a billionaire come to play cricket, to give the game in the West Indies the love and resources it has been starved of for too long.

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