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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.

Barry Zito

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.
BARRY ZITO

Calling Father League
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.
BARRY ZITO

Mind Pitching Views
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 refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
BARRY ZITO

Depth Interest Refuse
I think I’m aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.
BARRY ZITO

Fighting Guy Thinking
Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
BARRY ZITO

Defense League Sports
I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
BARRY ZITO

Care People Thinking
I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO

Friends Hands I Can
We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
BARRY ZITO

Body Determined Goes
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO

High School Kids School
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.
BARRY ZITO

Perspective Player Trying
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.
BARRY ZITO

Ballet Nice Peaceful
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
I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
BARRY ZITO

Focused Mechanic Professionally
We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
BARRY ZITO

Bullying Gay Organization

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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