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Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.


Ricky Jay

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RICKY WILLIAMS It is the intention for the Makars' Court to grow and develop as the Scottish national literary monu...
RICKY HENDERSON We're just trying to pick the best team for this game, first and foremost, but he's a young bloke wh...
RICKY PONTING Around the team I would have thought I have done most things right along the way,
RICKY PONTING I felt like I started pretty well and probably got worse as the innings went on,
RICKY PONTING It does look like a good wicket. I think it'll be a fairly traditional Sydney cricket wicket. It'll ...
RICKY PONTING It is always nice to win a series. We had lot of pressure in both games. Andrew and Clarke played we...
RICKY PONTING As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pres...
RICKY PONTING Jason just has to keep positive, keep working hard,
RICKY PONTING It's been mentally draining. The emotions have been up and down all day but I'm feeling pretty good ...
RICKY PONTING This England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and win...
RICKY PONTING We were confident of going close -- maybe not as close as it was in the end.
RICKY PONTING Even though we've lost this game, I think we can take away as much from this game as England can. Th...
RICKY PONTING It hurt him a lot not taking part in the last test match so he will be pretty keen to prove everybod...
RICKY PONTING We're saying all the right things in our team meetings,
RICKY PONTING We bit the bullet early on day one and decided to bat on that wicket, knowing it will get a bit lowe...
RICKY PONTING It was a little bit of a thing we had to clear up from today. It wasn't an incident. There were a fe...
RICKY PONTING He's had a pretty solid workout this morning and did a lot of running between the wickets in the net...
RICKY PONTING We are looking at those areas, as we always do, to look for little ways that we can improve ourselve...
RICKY PONTING I wouldn't like to think that anybody is playing for their career in this game, certainly that hasn'...
RICKY PONTING I have never been one who has sat back and taken all the accolades when the team has gone well. I th...
RICKY PONTING I still rank England second,
RICKY PONTING He smashed my chin. That didn't feel too good.
RICKY PROEHL Bubba (Stewart) was in front of me and I followed for a lap and a half and then made a clean inside ...
RICKY CARMICHAEL I'm not settling in, the points are too close. James (Stewart) is obviously riding really well.
RICKY CARMICHAEL All the guys in our rooms, although they're disappointed, can certainly hold their heads high and kn...
RICKY PONTING Casey came over and apologized. I guess he made a mistake, and it's very easy to make a mistake when...
RICKY RUDD The guys did a great job in the pits, ... We just sort of tried to stay out of trouble. We've wrecke...
RICKY RUDD We've wrecked out of this race the last three times,
RICKY RUDD THEY LOOK THE SAME, BUT THEY DON'T DRIVE THE SAME.
RICKY RUDD I wouldn't want to run a road course every weekend, but I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more on th...
RICKY RUDD I'm really sort of surprised at this run because we spent 98 percent of our time yesterday working o...
RICKY RUDD