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

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

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

— Jim Bouton

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

— Jim Bouton

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

— Jim Bouton

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

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

— 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

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.

— Jim Bouton