Barry Zito Quotes

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

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended ... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can count my friends on one hand.

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

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.

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.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

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

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.

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

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

I just write mechanical things.

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

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.

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.