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Barry Zito

(1978) Baseball Player

30 quotes in 174 categories

Barry Zito is a baseball player.

Quick Facts About Barry Zito

Born: May 13, 1978
Profession: Baseball Player

About Barry Zito

[Wikidata] American baseball pitcher and musician... | [Wikipedia] Barry William Zito is an American former professional baseball pitcher. A left-hander, Zito pitched for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants during a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career. Zito led the American League in wins and won the AL Cy Young Award in 2002. A three-time All-Sta

Quotes by Barry Zito

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.

Ballet

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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

Focused

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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…

Becoming successful

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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

Kids

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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…

Age

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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…

Confidence

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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…

Athlete

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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Catching

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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…

Believe

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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…

Bigs

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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…

Able

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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Bigs

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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…

Cocky

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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…

People

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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

Any

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I can count my friends on one hand.

Friendship

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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…

Excited

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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

High school

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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…

Achieve

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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…

Bears

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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…

Anything can happen

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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…

Approach

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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…

Big things

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I just write mechanical things.

Writing

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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…

Advice

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