Ronnie Biggs Quotes

• This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

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• There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brains out. I’m a crook.

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• There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

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• I was involved in the robbery for a pur pose, 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.

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• 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.

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• I kicked off… and things went on from there… down and down.

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• I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

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• Banks’ beer. There’s nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

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Ronnie Biggs (13)

Birth:	8th August, 1929
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Carpenter

About

Ronald Arthur "Ronnie" Biggs is an English criminal, known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, for his escape from prison in 1965, for living as a fugitive for 36 years and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. In 2001, he voluntarily returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison, where his health rapidly declined.

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• 1941 - Don Van Vliet
• 1844 - Cole Younger
• 1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• 1623 - Algernon Sidney

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• 1983 - Meyer Lansky
• 1996 - Les Baxter
• 2005 - Ruth Warrick
• 1948 - Josephus Daniels
• 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg