Jimmy Cannon Quotes

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

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#2. being is mainly composed of Kapha, the chemical processes and reactions taking place in the body are due to the manifestation of Pitta, and the bodily movements and activities are attributed to Vata.

Advait

#3. I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

Rod Stewart

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

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#6. 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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#7. Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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

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#9. England produces the best fat actors.

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#10. The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

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#13. Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company.

Kat Cole

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

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#15. Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Meridith Valiando Rojas

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

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

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#20. Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

John Boehner

#21. I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Billy Wilder

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

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#23. when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.

Paul Stanley

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

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#25. The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

Robert Zoellick

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

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#27. Listen to the time as it can heal everything.

Sorin Cerin