Jimmy Cannon Quotes
- 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…
- 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.…
- A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
- Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
- I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
- Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
- Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
- [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
- I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.
- I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
- 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.
- A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
- A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set
- Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
- Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.
- He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a…
- England produces the best fat actors.