We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

- John Arlott

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

- John Arlott

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

- John Arlott

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

- John Arlott

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

- John Arlott

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…

- John Arlott

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 fie…

- John Arlott

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

- John Arlott

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

- John Arlott