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

Barry Zito

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

Defense League Sports
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
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
BARRY ZITO

Achieve Person Something Stop
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.
BARRY ZITO

Advice Sports Thinking
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 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.
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Sports Thinking Wind
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 need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Example Forward Great Look Need
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

Able Intuition
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
I can count my friends on one hand.
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Friends Hands I Can
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

Ocean Running Years
I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO

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
I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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Care People Thinking

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

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