Jimmy Cannon famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Lonely #Holiday #Rejected
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Fishing #Drink #Excuse
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Sports #Fans #Tvs
A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Sports #Writing #Guy
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.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Baseball #Party #Drinking
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 ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Sports #Character #Greatness
Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Yankees #Yacht
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

#Women #Dope #Buying
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Stay Strong #Togas #Actors
I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Work #Men #Lunch
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Baseball #Curves #Giving
Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Race #Boxing #Credit
I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Funny Love #Men #Space
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Hockey #Games #Would Be
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Hockey #Player #Puck
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.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Sports #Baseball #Player
England produces the best fat actors.
-- Jimmy Cannon

#Actors #England #Produce

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