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

    Jim Bouton: If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
    Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co