Quotes by Jim Bouton - Page 1

Forget goals. Value the process.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Forget
Fortune Cookie
Goal
Process
Value
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You're only as smart as your ERA.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Eras
Smart
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Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Baseball
Interesting
Statistics
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It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Apologizing
Hurt
Mean
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The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Baseball
New York Yankees
Yankees
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Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
How You Feel
Opening
Opening Day
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How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Competition
Fighting
Want
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Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.
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Look Up
Looks
People
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We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
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Animal
Player
Yankees
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If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Baseball
Winning
Years
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You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Success
Sports
Baseball
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Football
Smarter
Team
Teamwork
Baseball Players
Players
Field
Football Players
Penalized
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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.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Good
Sports
Baseball
Gripping
Turns
Way
Life Time Good
Life Time Sports
Around
End
Spend
In The End
Other
Piece
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For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Hundred
Player
Years
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A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Long
Nice
Yankees
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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.
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Funny
Business
People
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Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.
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Girl
Cameras
Lenses
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After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."
Jim Bouton / Baseball Player
Men
Powerful
Strong
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