Quotes by Bill James

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(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

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A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera’s picture on the other.

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Sleep

Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

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Proud

Stress

Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you’ll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

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Proud

Stress

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Airplane

Computer

People

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Cases

Crime

Figures

Crime stories show us the part of people’s lives they try to keep hidden.

People

Stories

Trying

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

Baseball

Cereal

People

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown – defense, base running, clutch hitting – his performance still would not match Mantle’s.

Baseball

Defense

Running

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you’ve got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

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Pockets

Rope

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Quotes by Bill James

Bill James

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera’s picture on the other.

Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you’ll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

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 we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown – defense, base running, clutch hitting – his performance still would not match Mantle’s.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you’ve got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

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