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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

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
We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
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Body Determined Goes
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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Age Example Identity Kind Some Sports
I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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Care People Thinking
I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Focused Mechanic Professionally
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 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
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
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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Mind Pitching Views
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’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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Kids Stills Veteran
I can count my friends on one hand.
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Friends Hands I Can
I just write mechanical things.
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Writing
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Achieve Person Something Stop
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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Ballet Nice Peaceful
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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Catching Outfielders Solid

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