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Jim Bouton Quotes

«You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.»
«Forget goals. Value the process.»
Author: Jim Bouton | About: Goals
«Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?»
«Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.»
«Ball Four»
Author: Jim Bouton
«Throw him low smoke and we'll go pound some Budweiser.»
Author: Jim Bouton
«It goes back to the old concept of town teams ? your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.»
Author: Jim Bouton
«We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.»
Author: Jim Bouton
«The fans are going to get quite a show. This is theater and this is living history, but it's also unscripted sports competition. It's not like a Civil War re-enactment. It's a real ballgame.»
Author: Jim Bouton
«Most players saw amphetamines as harmless. But the professional athlete does a lot of things to his body that they don't think of as harmful.»
Author: Jim Bouton