Boyhood Quote by Jimmy Cannon Download Open image “A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.” — Jimmy Cannon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boyhood
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella Copy Share Image
Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home… — Roy Campanella Copy Share Image
Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me. — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed and the dejected. ” — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas. — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every object in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image