Quotes by Billy Beane - Page 1

I hate losing more than I want to win.
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
Hate
Want
Winning
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How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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Baseball
Best Baseball
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It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball
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Baseball
Hard
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When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.
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Enemy
Making Mistakes
Mistake
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No matter how successful you are, change is always good.
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Matter
Successful
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Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
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Bottom
Smaller
Teams
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We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
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Economics
Given
Yankees
Lose
Same Things
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I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.
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Decision
Made
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Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.
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Able
Hats
Mark
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Brightest
Period
Line
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You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
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Baseball
Faces
Reality
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I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.
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Love Work Community
Stayed
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I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
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Visible
Clubhouse
Field
Invested
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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Brad
Cinema
Brad Pitt
Lesson
Maths
Pitt
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We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.
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Accurate
Blood
Data
Evaluation
Information
Player
Life Help Will
Help
Piece
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The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.
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Volleyball
Eye
Ideas
Rabbits
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
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Soccer
Frankly
Quite Frankly
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When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
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Business Better People
Healthier
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Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
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Lowest
Crappy
Stadium
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I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
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Barbara
Freshman
General Manager
Santa
Lady
Manager
Readings
Required
Talked
Young Lady
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You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.
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Champions League
Goal
Play
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I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.
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Blank
Decision Making
Decision Making Process
New Ideas
Me Game People
Biases
Frankly
Quite Frankly
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
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Time Work Business
Bright
Work Time Business
Long Period
Same Thing
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
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Predictability
Return
Asset
Casino
Insurance
Rates
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I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?
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Detached
Card
Hands-On
Lineup
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
Baseball
Certain
Data
Games
Individual
Math
Odds
Outcomes
Pay
Predict
Also
Works
Course
Eliminate
Players
Over
Performance
Random
Season
Strategies
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In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
Credit
Databases
Diving
Fantastic
Pitcher
Trajectory
Velocity
Time Look Bad
Batter
Catch
Poorly
Screaming
Struck
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I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests me. It is the constructing of the team that is my favorite part. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the A's franchise, even dating back to Philadelphia, knows that every five or 10 years, you have to tear it apart and rebuild it.
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Dating
Familiar
Philadelphia
Restless
History Always Me
Apart
Constructing
Favorite Part
Franchise
Intellectually
Rebuild
Tear
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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
Finishing
Half
Impact
Winter
Belt
Replace
Ultimately
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