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Motivation Quote by Tony Greig

"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons"

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Tony Greig’s sentence reads like a man trying to keep his balance on a moving deck: he’s asking for something forceful ("that was what I was asking to happen"), being promised institutional action ("I was told that the indictment would be signed"), then immediately bumping up against the mundane cliff-edge of contract time and personal obligation. The power of the quote is how it smuggles a high-stakes drama into the language of logistics. An indictment - a word with legal thunder - sits beside the dry HR rhythm of "one-year contract", as if justice and employment are just two items on the same itinerary.

The intent feels double: he wants to sound decisive about accountability while also making clear he didn’t control the timeline. "I was told" and the passive "would be signed" shift agency away from him, suggesting a system that moves at its own pace and leaves individuals to absorb the fallout. That phrasing also quietly protects his reputation: if nothing happened, it wasn’t because he failed to push.

Contextually, this lands in the world athletes know too well: careers structured by short-term deals, travel, and national ties, where personal life can collide with professional storms. The subtext is frustration dressed as restraint. Greig isn’t delivering a manifesto; he’s documenting the gap between what he wanted, what he was assured, and what reality permitted. That gap is where institutional trust erodes - not with a bang, but with a flight home booked before the paperwork is.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Greig, Tony. (2026, January 16). And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-that-was-what-i-was-asking-to-happen-and-i-97691/

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Greig, Tony. "And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-that-was-what-i-was-asking-to-happen-and-i-97691/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-that-was-what-i-was-asking-to-happen-and-i-97691/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Tony Greig (born October 6, 1946) is a Athlete from South Africa.

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