David Bryant (bowls)

David John Bryant CBE (born 27 October 1931 – 27 August 2020) was a three-time World (outdoors) singles bowls champion (in 1966, 1980 and 1988) and also a three-time World indoors singles champion (in 1979, 1980 and 1981).

Quotes

• I'm not an athlete, more a gymnast and golfer, soldered together.
  • Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)

• Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.
  • Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)