Quotes About Jim Murray

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.

IT'S A staggering list of achievements—the acting, the racing, the earnings, the giving away—and he could sometimes seem uneasy about it all and, especially, about the image that the rest of the world had of him as a result. The great sportswriter Jim Murray, who met him on a racetrack, opined, "He's probably the only guy in America who doesn't want to be Paul Newman.

Jim Murray's greatest writings were golf writings.