umpire quotes

   Purpose apart, perched like an umpire, dozes, Dreams golden balls whirring through indigo. Clay blurs the whitewash but day still encloses The albinos, bonded in their flick and flow. Playing in musicked gravity, the pair Score liquid Euclids in foolscaps of air.

- Margaret Avison
  Winter Sun,'Tennis'.

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

- IanTerence Botham
  Ian Botham on Cricket.

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. I am the batsman and the bat, I am the bowler and the ball, The umpire, the pavilion cat, The roller, pitch, and stumps and all. See Emerson 313:39.

- Andrew Lang
'Brahma'. Quoted by Alan Richardson in a letter to The Times, 18 May,1963.