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"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."
"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
"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."
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
"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."
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
"There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy."
"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
"In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
"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."
"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
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