Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Ronald Biggs

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British celebrity Ronald Biggs.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ronald Biggs

Ronald Arthur Biggs was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. In 2001, Biggs returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison, where his health rapidly declined. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 and died in a nursing home in December 2013.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down. — © Ronald Biggs
I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.
I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.
There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!
Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.
I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.
I would like to be remembered as a good father. A good husband. A good brother. A good friend. A good man. But that is simply not going to happen. Like it or not, I have reached the point of infamy when I am going to be remembered simply as 'Ronnie Biggs', whatever or whoever he is in your mind.
I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.
For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.
Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex! — © Ronald Biggs
Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!
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