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It's an honour to captain the West Indies.
I am always committed to West Indies cricket.
It is always honour to captain the West Indies.
Being selected for West Indies actually changed my life.
My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.
We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.
I know the history of West Indies cricket and I know what it means to the people.
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.
I don't have any complaints. I cannot say I miss playing for the West Indies that much.
I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'
England has some very good cricketers. And don't rule West Indies out. They have some explosive players.
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
Whether you play England, either you play West Indies or Australia, you have to take wicket if you stop any team.
While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
Hell, I would love to work with El Torito somewhere and somehow on the indies or down in Mexico. Something like that.
I am thankful that I played the game at a time when the West Indies climbed to heights that have never been repeated.
Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.
I grew up at a time when West Indies dominated the world. For 15 years from 1980, the West Indies never lost a Test series.
A lot of the big-budget movies, craft-wise, are amazing, but have a boring story. And the indies have their idiosyncrasies.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
I want to give back and show my gratitude to the indies. At the same time, cherish the mainstream projects I've been getting.
Cricket is my life and it has been since the age of five so the first opportunity I get, I'll be back playing for West Indies.
Until we can get people who are willing to play for West Indies in the right way, I think that we're going to be struggling for a long time.
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.
After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.
To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.
Taking part and helping West Indies win the World T20 in 2012 - I'll never forget the feeling. The celebrations afterwards were crazy, a massive all-nighter.
I've been lucky enough to have a lot of romantic leads in movies and indies, and you do form a different kind of connection when you do that together as actors.
How can you disrespect the West Indies when we were so dominant in world cricket for so long? We have to face it ourselves because our own board don't defend us.
I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.
When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.
I have stopped thinking too much. It all started against West Indies. I told myself that I want to enjoy my life. I don't want selection issues to rule my happiness.
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.
When I was a little kid, WWF was all I had access to. After a year or two when I found the indies and could watch wrestling live, it was just as big a deal to me as WWF.
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
I met someone in the West Indies who was not able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was able to get up. I know the tabloids will get excited by this so I try to play it down.
I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.
The problem with West Indies cricket is that the talent is there but there is no cohesion. Everybody's pulling in different directions; the players, the selectors, the management.
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
Before 'Last Man Standing,' I did a lot of indies, which were raw and controversial and much darker. That is where I feel most secure as a storyteller. That is what I am drawn to the most.
I was probably one of the top three or four wrestlers in the world on the indies, just killing it. Nobody really saw me going to a bigger company because of my past and just how people view me.
I have some goals I'm looking to achieve, and one thing is to help the team win and move back up the ladder. This is vitally important to the team overall and to the supporters of West Indies cricket.
When you think about a WWE Diva, you think of us girls in WWE, not, like, the girls that are in the indies, the girls in TNA or in other different companies. So yeah, the word 'Diva' means a lot to me.
That's why I like the indies: because I like being who I am. I get to be who I am in the ring, on the microphone, everywhere. It's great. I never have to get out of character because I am Matthew Riddle.