Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

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.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.