Jim Bouton Quotes (9 Quotes)

Forget goals. Value the process.

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, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

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.

The fans are going to get quite a show. This is theater and this is living history, but it's also unscripted sports competition. It's not like a Civil War re-enactment. It's a real ballgame.

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.

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.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

They should have done something a long time ago. The players who aren't taking drugs need to be protected from the ones taking them.... You've said to the public, 'Let's ignore it until the absolute last minute.' Now, everybody suffers, even the guy who's not taking anything.

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