Actors Quotes by Jimmy Cannon

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

— Jimmy Cannon

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.

— Jimmy Cannon

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

— Jimmy Cannon

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

— Jimmy Cannon

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

— Jimmy Cannon

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

— Jimmy Cannon

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

— Jimmy Cannon

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

— Jimmy Cannon

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

— Jimmy Cannon

England produces the best fat actors.

— Jimmy Cannon

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as…

— Jimmy Cannon

“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed and the dejected. ”

— Jimmy Cannon