Jim Bouton Quotes

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Politics is not an exact science.

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Politics are not an exact science.

Life itself is controversy.

I don't know whether the appointment be a matter of condolement or congratulation

The most unquestionable right may be rendered doubtful, if once admitted to be a subject of controversy

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.

The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.