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.
BARRY ZITOI do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we’ll always be connected in people’s minds.
More Barry Zito Quotes
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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.
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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 think I’m aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.
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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 just write mechanical things.
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We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
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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 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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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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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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It’s not like I’m some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can’t wait to experience that.
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