Jimmy Cannon quotes:

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

England produces the best fat actors.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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