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"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
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"The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers."
Life
"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
Baseball
"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."
Ambition
"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"
Blame
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
Affection
"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
Statistics
"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too."
Baseball
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
Baseball
"The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons."
American
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
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Personal Development
"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
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"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
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"You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight."
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
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"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor."
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