Jimmy Cannon Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

England produces the best fat actors.

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

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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