--- title: "1 Night Football Quotes By Jim Bouton" description: "1 Night Football quotes by Jim Bouton. Plus more from Jim Bouton and more Night Football sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/jim-bouton-21172_getting-started_the-only-member-of-the-team-nobody-liked_3097491.jpg" --- > [“The only member of the team nobody liked was our 6 o’clock sports guy, a fellow named Howard Cosell. “Monday Night Football” was just getting started and Howard was annoyed at having to be on the same news with mere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/the-only-member-of-the-team-nobody-liked-was-our-6-o-clock-sports-guy/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/jim-bouton-21172_getting-started_the-only-member-of-the-team-nobody-liked_3097491.jpg) ## More by Jim Bouton > [“I’m not sure I’m going to like Don Mincher. I keep hearing that big southern accent of his. It’s prejudice, I know, but every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/i-m-not-sure-i-m-going-to-like-don-mincher-i-keep-hearing-that-big/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [“Don’t ever think $7,000 isn’t a lot of money in baseball. I’ve had huge arguments over a lot less.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/don-t-ever-think-7-000-isn-t-a-lot-of-money-in-baseball-i-ve-had-huge/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/you-spend-a-good-deal-of-your-life-gripping-a-baseball-and-it-turns/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/a-ballplayer-spends-a-good-piece-of-his-life-gripping-a-baseball-and/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/how-come-nobody-wants-to-argue-with-me-is-it-because-i-m-always-so/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/back-then-if-you-had-a-sore-arm-the-only-people-concerned-were-you/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/it-never-hurts-to-apologize-especially-if-you-don-t-mean-it/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/baseball-players-are-smarter-than-football-players-how-often-do-you/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/statistics-are-about-as-interesting-as-first-base-coaches/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/before-the-first-workout-joe-schultz-the-manager-he-s-out-of-the-old/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [“Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, “There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/sheldon-kopp-the-author-and-psychologist-wrote-there-are-no-great-men/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/after-i-won-21-games-i-said-this-isn-t-that-hard-actually-i-can-do/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/doubleday-s-first-law-which-states-that-if-you-throw-a-fastball-with/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/for-a-hundred-years-the-owners-screwed-the-players-for-25-years-the/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) > [We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bouton/we-were-like-farm-animals-compared-to-today-s-players-who-are-treated/) [Jim Bouton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bouton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night-football/jim-bouton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Night Football Quotes By Jim Bouton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The only member of the team nobody liked was our 6 o’clock sports guy, a fellow named Howard Cosell. “Monday Night Football” was just getting started and Howard was annoyed at having to be on the same news with mere local personalities, whom he would attack on the air. 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