I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
BARRY ZITOI’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
More Barry Zito Quotes
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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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I can count my friends on one hand.
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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 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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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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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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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 OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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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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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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I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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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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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 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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