The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
BARRY ZITOIt’s not like I’m some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field.
More Barry Zito Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
BARRY ZITO -
We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
BARRY ZITO -
I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO -
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 -
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 -
I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO -
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 -
I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we’ll always be connected in people’s minds.
BARRY ZITO -
I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
BARRY ZITO -
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.
BARRY ZITO -
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 -
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
BARRY ZITO -
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO