Top 33 Jim Bouton Quotes
#1. Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.
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#2. The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
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#3. It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
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#4. The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, Those people don't know how tough that was.
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#5. 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.
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#6. A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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#7. The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, What was my name?
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#8. High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.
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#9. I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.
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#10. Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
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#11. 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.
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#12. We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
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#13. The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
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#14. I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, Fuck you, Shakespeare.
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#15. The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
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#16. Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.
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#17. Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.
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#18. Before the first workout, Joe Schultz, the manager (he's out of the old school, I think, because he looks like he's out of the old school - short, portly, bald, ruddy-faced, twinkly eyed), stopped by while I was having a catch. "How you feeling, Jim?" he asked. I wonder what he meant by that.
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#19. If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
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#20. When I approached him a second time with the cameras rolling, Munson grabbed the microphone and suggested I perform a physical impossibility.
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#21. How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?
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#23. Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.
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#24. The older they get, the better they get when they were younger
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#25. Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.
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#26. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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#27. Opening day
or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.
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#28. Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?
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#29. 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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#31. The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late.
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#32. Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners.
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#33. Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.
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