Eras Quote 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…

— 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 the time.

— 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…

— 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, your agent,…

— 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 field?

— 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 of the…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jim Bouton