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

Barry Zito

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 hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Focused Mechanic Professionally
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
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 just write mechanical things.
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Writing
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
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
I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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Kids Stills Veteran
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 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 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 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
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Achieve Person Something Stop
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

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