“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.”
William S. Gilbert
“I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.”
Henry Rollins
“The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.”
Hugh Sidey
“You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump”
Proverb
“If you're a fast bowler, you are there to bowl fast and knock the stumps over and hit the batsmen,”
Brett Lee
“The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.”
Tony Banks
“Various ways have been suggested to counter him, ... such as batting out of the crease, standing on off stump, or even taking a chance by having a go at him. But attacking him is very difficult when he bowls as he did at Lord's. We have all worked very hard this week and there are various new plans, areas to work on and shots to play.”
Michael Vaughan
