"Statistics are about as interesting as first base…" — Jim Bouton
"Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches."
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11 Quotes by Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton has 11 quotes on this site.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men…
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Forget goals. Value the process.
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It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
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Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that…
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For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75…
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If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life,…
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Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you,…
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The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
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You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way…
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it…
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More Base Quotes
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— Aristotle
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round…
— Scott Adams
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan…
— Kate Beckinsale
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
— Max Beerbohm
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not…
— Lewis Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
— Giordano Bruno
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