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 ZITOThe outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
More Barry Zito Quotes
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I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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I just write mechanical things.
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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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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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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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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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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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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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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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I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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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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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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