The nickname of Jimmy Quinn in Celtic circles of the time, was The Equator (the Centre of the Earth). He was one of Glasgow Celtic's greatest players. Jimmy played at centre forward (hence the nickname) from 1900 till 1915, having gone to Celtic from Smithston Albion.
 
Not remarkably tall at five feet eight and a half inches, Jimmy made up in brawn and power what he may have lacked in height. "I used to play with the blood running down into my boots," he once remarked. He was a powerhouse in any match. In the Celtic versus Rangers Scottish Cup-Final of 1904, he single-handedly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a hat trick, when he pulled Celtic back from a 2-0 Rangers score to a 3-2 Cup win for Celtic.
 
On a remarkable Scotland versus England International in 1908, a newspaper report read: Scotland's attack seemed at times to be simply Quinn, all Quinn and nothing but Quinn. The next year, 1909 when he annihilated the English League at Parkhead, a poem was written about Jimmy as follows:
 
Didn't know Quinn?
Pride of the Celtic?
Look here Saxon
Where you bin?
Not to know Quinn?
Quinn of the Celtic.