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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Mechanical
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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Hands
I Can
My Friends
Count
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Sports
Defense
League
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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Kids
Stills
Veteran
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Catching
Outfielders
Solid
Outfield
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Focused
Mechanic
Mechanics
Professionally
Signed
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I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Care
People
Thinking
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Kids
High School
Outcast
School
School High School High
Popular
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Common Ground
People Feel Find
Hang
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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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Sports
Guy
People
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Connected
Always Look People
Touch
Look People Always
Minds
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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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Fighting
Guy
Thinking
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Ballet
Nice
Peaceful
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Depth
Interest
Refuse
Ballplayer
Interests
Molded
No Life
Stereotypical
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Bullying
Gay
Organization
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Mind
Pitching
Prisoner
Views
Confident
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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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Able
Intuition
Would Be
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Believe
Rebirth
Spiritual
Waiting
Earthly
Wait
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Being Different
Guy
People
Perceive
Successful
Famous Always People
Famous People
Famous Rich People
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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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Perspective
Player
Trying
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Sports
People
Sun
Thinking
Pray
Pole
Totem
Totem Pole
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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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Running
Cocky
Giving Up
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We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.
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Body
Determined
Goes On
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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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Advice
Uncomfortable
Seeks
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Calling
Father
League
Family Always Me
Believed
Big Leagues
Family Father Me
Leagues
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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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Sports
Advice
Thinking
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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. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Age
Sports
Example
Veteran
Age Great Look
Gap
Identify
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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
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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.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Sports
One Day
Thinking
Throwing
Wind
Good Game Day
Bullpen
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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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Ocean
Running
Years
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You can be born into a musical family and have an ear for music but being technically gifted, be it playing an instrument or songwriting, takes years to get good at. So for me, I'm excited to start over, and yeah, I have a few talents I can build off of. But I see this as a long process; it's a marathon.
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Long
Musical
Starting Over
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Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.
Barry Zito / Baseball Athlete
Approach
Christianity
Guy
Needs
Spirituality
Taoism
Grab
Interpret
Onto
Regardless
Structured
Zen
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