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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.

Barry Zito

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
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
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
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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Catching Outfielders Solid
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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Ocean Running Years
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’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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Care People Thinking
The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Achieve Person Something Stop
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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Mind Pitching Views
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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Depth Interest Refuse
I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Focused Mechanic Professionally
I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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Kids Stills Veteran
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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Guy People Sports
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 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
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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People Sports Thinking

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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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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