JIMMY CANNON

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

England produces the best fat actors.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

England produces the best fat actors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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.

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.

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.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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