Jimmy Cannon Quotes

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.

He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache ... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party ... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

England produces the best fat actors.