Jimmy Cannon Quotes

#1. A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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

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#7. England produces the best fat actors.

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#8. I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

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#13. I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

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

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

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

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

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