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    After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game.

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    A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

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    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.

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

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    For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

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    Forget goals. Value the process.

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    How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

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    If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

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    It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

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    Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

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    Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

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    Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.

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    Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

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    The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

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    We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

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    You're only as smart as your ERA.

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    You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

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

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

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

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    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?

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    The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.

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

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    The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late.

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

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    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.

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    Jim Bouton

    You see, 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.