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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

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.
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People Sports Thinking
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.
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Guy People Successful
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 set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Example Forward Great Look Need
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’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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Care People 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.
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Age Example Identity Kind Some Sports
We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
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Bullying Gay Organization
I’m not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I’m not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.
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Cocky Give Up Running
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
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.
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Ocean Running Years
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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Catching Outfielders Solid
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
Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Defense League Sports
I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Focused Mechanic Professionally
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.
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Athlete People Rapper
I think I’m aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.
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Fighting Guy Thinking
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
I just write mechanical things.
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Writing
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
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 can count my friends on one hand.
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Friends Hands I Can
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
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
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Achieve Person Something Stop
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

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