You spend a good piece of ...

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.
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.
 Jim Bouton

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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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