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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

I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO

Writing
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 need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Example Forward Great Look Need
I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.
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Kids Stills Veteran
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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Guy People Successful
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 hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Focused Mechanic Professionally
I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.
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Care People Thinking
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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Fighting Guy Thinking
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
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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Athlete People Rapper
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
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
We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.
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Body Determined Goes
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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Advice Sports Thinking
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

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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