John Arlott Quotations

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

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

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

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

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

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

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

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

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

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