John Arlott Quotes

• 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.

  John Arlott

  Running, Determination, Believe

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

  John Arlott

  Technique, Nests, Umbrella

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• Looking for a cricket quote for inspiration? Or, maybe a cricket quote to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotations.

  John Arlott

  Inspiration, Laughing, Cricket

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

  John Arlott

  Men, Walking Sticks, Cricket

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

  John Arlott

  Food, Wine, Successful

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• 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.

  John Arlott

  Lonely, Team, Games

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• We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

  John Arlott

  Sports

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

  John Arlott

  Umpires, Bird, Stopping

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

  John Arlott

  Umpires, Dresses, Tasks

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

  John Arlott

  Bye, Air, Umpires

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• Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

  John Arlott

  Rays, Fronts

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

  John Arlott

  Afl, Done, Bills

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

  John Arlott

  Men, He Man, Impulse

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