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,…

— 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.”

— Jim Bouton

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all…

— Jim Bouton

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was…

— Jim Bouton

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

— 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,…

— Jim Bouton

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

— Jim Bouton

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the…

— Jim Bouton

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

— 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…

— Jim Bouton

“Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, “There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Jim Bouton

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

— Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the…

— Jim Bouton

“Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these…

— Jim Bouton

Forget goals. Value the process.

— Jim Bouton

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

— Jim Bouton

“Gary Bell is nicknamed Ding Dong. Of course. What’s interesting about it is that “Ding Dong” is what the guys holler when…

— Jim Bouton

Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.

— Jim Bouton

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of…

— Jim Bouton

You're only as smart as your ERA.

— Jim Bouton

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it…

— Jim Bouton

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that…

— Jim Bouton