Jimmy Breslin Quotes & Sayings

“The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.”

“Media, the plural of mediocrity.”

“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”

“Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”

“Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.”

“Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!”

“Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?”

“Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.”

“Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.”

“The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.”