Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
BARRY ZITOI can count my friends on one hand.
More Barry Zito Quotes
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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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The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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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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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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I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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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’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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