Jim Bouton

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

“Forget goals. Value the process.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“The older they get, the better they get when they were younger”