Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by John Arlott

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

Australianism' means single-minded determination to win - to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the 'impossible' is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it - and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match - particularly a Test match - until the last run is scored or their last wicket down.

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Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.