Jim Murray > Quotes

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.”
― Jim Murray

“HIs words were: "Wharl, sir, if yer really interested in bourbon, ring the big man at Jim Beam, Booker Noe. What he don't know about whiskey-making and it's history just ain't worth a spit." I think he said "spit", anyway.”
― Jim Murray, Jim Murray's complete book of whisky: the definitive guide to the whiskies of the world