John Arlott famous quotes

03-30-2025

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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-- John Arlott

#Inspiration #Laughing #Checks
We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.
-- John Arlott

#Sports
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
-- John Arlott

#Men #He Man #Impulse
Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
-- John Arlott

#Done #Bills #Arithmetic
Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.
-- John Arlott

#Rays
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
The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk
-- John Arlott

#Air #Umpires #Bye
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
-- John Arlott

#Umpires #Dresses #Tasks
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
-- John Arlott

#Umpires #Bird #Stopping
Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.
-- John Arlott

#Food #Wine #Successful
A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
-- John Arlott

#Men #Sticks #Knocking

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