Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim may refer to:

Nicknames of:

  • James J. Corbett (1866-1933), a heavyweight boxing champion
  • Jimmy Dickinson (1925-1982), England and Portsmouth footballer
  • Jim Kramer (born 1958), a champion Scrabble player
  • Jim Lonborg (born 1942), a major league baseball pitcher
  • Jim Reeves (1923–1964), a country and popular music singer
  • Jim Thome, Major-league Baseball Player
  • James K. Woolnough (1910-1996), a U.S. Army general
  • James J. Yeager, head football coach at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 1940s

Other:

  • Gentleman Jim (film), a 1942 film starring Errol Flynn as the boxer James J. Corbett
  • Gentleman Jim, an 1878 publication of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Gentleman Jim, a 1980 book by children's author Raymond Briggs
  • "Gentleman Jim", an episode of the animated children's show Tracey McBean

Famous quotes containing the words gentleman and/or jim:

    “As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood—a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
    —Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)