I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
BARRY ZITOWhen 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 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 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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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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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 need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is 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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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 OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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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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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 do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we’ll always be connected in people’s minds.
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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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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 was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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