Bill James Quotes

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• The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when…
• Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
• Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like…
• I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use…
• I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my…
• Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.
• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
• I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
• Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
• Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
• Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
• Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
• Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
• Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
• I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
• I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
• I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

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