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Opening day
or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it. — Jim Bouton

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches. — Jim Bouton

Forget goals. Value the process. — Jim Bouton

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down. — Jim Bouton

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea. — Jim Bouton

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right? — 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 way around all the time. — Jim Bouton

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger — 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

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. — Jim Bouton

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it. — Jim Bouton

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

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 Bouton

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game. — 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 some way. — Jim Bouton

Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners. — Jim Bouton

When I approached him a second time with the cameras rolling, Munson grabbed the microphone and suggested I perform a physical impossibility. — Jim Bouton

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds. — Jim Bouton

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near. — 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

You're only as smart as your ERA. — Jim Bouton

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right. — Jim Bouton

The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late. — Jim Bouton

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick. — Jim Bouton

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger. — Jim Bouton

I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, Fuck you, Shakespeare. — Jim Bouton