I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO
When I’m doing well, it’s like I’m in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It’s very peaceful.
BARRY ZITO
I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I’d been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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There’s a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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I need to have perspective. That’s one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.
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It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we’ll always be connected in people’s minds.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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