27 Quotes by Jimmy Cannon

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

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.

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

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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