44 Quotes by Jim Bouton

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

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

You're only as smart as your ERA.

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

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take 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 been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

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’re only as smart as your ERA.

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