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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1939

Topics

Life Good Sports Time Baseball End

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

Story Generation Place Because Like

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.

Friend Best Me Best Friend Out Guy

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

Bad Know Boy Lived Neighborhood Did

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Eye Someone Look Table Cards Go

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

New York Brother Parents City Born

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

Country Hard Real Over Layers Been

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

School American Values Country Play

My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

World Human Like Most Trusting He

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Women Men Speak Mouth Listen Two

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

Jonathan Anderson

Life Job Balance Feel You Never

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

Pop Records Tracks His Lot Honestly

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

Golf Island Double Something Almost

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