Cricket Quote by Katharine Whitehorn

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of…

— Neville Cardus

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

— Larry Goetz

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

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

— John Arlott

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

— Doug Harvey

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

— Ban Johnson

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

— Pete Rose

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

— Adam Gilchrist

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the…

— Ozzie Smith

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in…

— Felix Morley

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing…

— John Arlott

Cricket has a stigma of old men in white clothes playing cricket but readdressing that image to people who aren't necessarily cricket lovers may…

— Jos Buttler