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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.

Barry Zito

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.
BARRY ZITO

Athlete People Rapper
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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Believe Spiritual Waiting
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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Able Intuition
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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Perspective Player Trying
I just write mechanical things.
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Writing
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.
BARRY ZITO

People Sports Thinking
Meyer and I have a bit in common because we’re both left-handed. I think it’s great that he seeks out that advice because he’s not too “cool” or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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Advice Sports Thinking
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Achieve Person Something Stop
I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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Kids Stills Veteran
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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Depth Interest Refuse
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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High School Kids School
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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Guy People Sports
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.
BARRY ZITO

Age Example Identity Kind Some Sports
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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Calling Father League
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.
BARRY ZITO

Guy People Successful
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 ZITO

Sports Thinking Wind

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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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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