Quotes by Jimmy Cannon - Page 1

England produces the best fat actors.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Actors
England
Produce
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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Sports
Fans
Tvs
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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Sports
Sports Fan
Tv
Boos
Fan
Rabid
Tv Set
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Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
New York Yankees
Yankees
Yankees Baseball
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A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
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Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
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Boxing
Credit
Race
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Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Games
Hockey
Nhl
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[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Baseball
Curves
Giving
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Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Fishing
Lakes
Sea
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Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Daytime
Drink
Excuse
Fishing
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A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
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Sports
Guy
Writing
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Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Christmas
Smile
Holiday
Lonely
Rejected
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Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Average
Lasts
Rooms
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I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Movie
Actors
Remember
Stay Strong
Staying
Togas
Actor
Wore
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A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Hockey
Player
Puck
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I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Love
Men
Space
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I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.
Jimmy Cannon / Journalist
Work
Men
Lazy Man
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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 / Journalist
Women
Buying
Dope
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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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Sports
Character
Greatness
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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.
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Baseball
Drinking
Party
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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.
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Sports
Baseball
Player
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