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 ZITOI can count my friends on one hand.
More Barry Zito Quotes
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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 was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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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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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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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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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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I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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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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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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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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We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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