Barry Zito Quotes

#1. 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.

Barry Zito

#2. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Julie Dillon

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Barry Zito

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

Anne Bronte

#10. 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.

Barry Zito

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

Barry Zito

#12. 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

#13. You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

Selena Gomez

#14. Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Barry Zito

#15. I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.

Burt Bacharach

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

Barry Zito

#17. 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

#18. 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.

Barry Zito

#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

David Bowie

#22. I just write mechanical things.

Barry Zito

#23. Laughter is the evidence that the chokehold of shame has been loosened. Knowing laughter is the moment we feel proof that our shame has been transformed. Like empathy, it strips shame to the bone, robs it of its power and forces it from the closet.

Brene Brown

#24. Helping others see why they are special is a great way to remind them of how the heavenly Father loves them and has made them unique. - Jeanette Gardner Littleton

Gary Chapman

#25. The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

Michael Brent Jones

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

Barry Zito

#27. I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Barry Zito

#28. We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.

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#29. I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

Spike Lee

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

Barry Zito

#31. Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.

Alaska Angelini

#32. I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Barry Zito

#33. He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

#34. Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

Jackson Harris

#35. I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

Jennifer Egan

#36. 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.

Barry Zito

#37. 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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#38. 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.

Barry Zito

#39. I can count my friends on one hand.

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