Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
The umpire. . . is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
I take a good feeling away from what football brings.
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.