Jim Bouton Quotes

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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?
• Forget goals. Value the process.
• It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
• 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…
• 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.
• Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
• If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
• 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…
• The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
• You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
• 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…

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