A Quote by Jimmy Cannon

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

Jimmy Cannon

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Jimmy Cannon
American - Journalist
Born: December 5, 1973

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Red Smith

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

William Butler Yeats

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Seneca the Younger

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.

Rick Bragg

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

John Updike

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca the Younger

Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

W. G. Sebald

I'm not a sportswriter.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.

Ann Reinking

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Virginia Woolf

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

Luke Ford

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

J. K. Rowling

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Francis Bacon

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

Richard M. Nixon

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Hunter S. Thompson

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

Ralph Nader

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