- Douglas Jardine: I demand an apology, one of your team mates called me a bastard.
- Australian Player: Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?
- Percy George Fender: [to Jardine] Donald George Bradman, born 1908, son of a carpenter from Bowral, New South Wales. Son of a carpenter? It's worth a thought!
- Heckler (Ernest Jones): [in boat alongside the Oriente through a loud hailer] Go home, you Pommie bastards! You don't stand a chance against Bradman!
- Douglas Jardine: [on deck to other players] Gentlemen, we are entering the land of the barbarian!
- Australian Selector (Aubrey): People are reluctant to part with their money, and they certainly won't do so, if they can't watch Bradman.
- Australian Selector (Robertson): The game is more important than the individual. If we allow ourselves to be dictated to by players, who knows where it will end! One day matches for the convenience of the press, later starting times for the convenience of radio stations!
- Richardson: [to Jardine] You cannot dictate terms to the MCC!
- Douglas Jardine: Well, in that case, my resignation with be on your table in the morning!
- Sir Clive Wigram: [at a meeting with Pelham Warner] I can't help feeling, with Jardine as captain, we may win the Ashes, but we may lose a dominion!