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Letter "J" » Jim Bouton Quotes
«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.»
Author: Jim Bouton
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«Forget goals. Value the process.»
«Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?»
Author: Jim Bouton
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Baseball,
Football
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The Field
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«Throw him low smoke and we'll go pound some Budweiser.»
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«We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.»
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«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.»