44 Quotes by Jim Bouton

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

You see, 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 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 all the time.

We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.

Most players saw amphetamines as harmless. But the professional athlete does a lot of things to his body that they don't think of as harmful.

It goes back to the old concept of town teams your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.

It goes back to the old concept of town teams ù your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.