Citas de Bill James

• There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

  Bill James

  Moving, Curves, People

  Bill James (2015). “Bill James Handbook 2016”, p.2, ACTA Publications

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• I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

  Bill James

  Trying, Answers, Break

  "Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 04, 2011.

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• I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

  Bill James

  Baseball, Fun, Made

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• I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

  Bill James

  Knowing, Asking Questions, Answers

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• 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.

  Bill James

  Baseball, Cereal, People

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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.

  Bill James

  Sleep, Numbers, Cards

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• La estandarización conduce a la rigidez, y la rigidez hace que las cosas se rompan.

  Bill James

  Causes, Break, Rigidity

  "The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball". Book by Scott Gray, 2006.

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

  Bill James

  Baseball, Running, Defense

  Bill James (1988). “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”, Random House Incorporated

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• Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

  Bill James

  Running, Gains, Add

  "The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

  Bill James

  Winning, Dodge, Election

  "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

  Bill James

  Practice, Movement, Months

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• When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

  Bill James

  People, Periods, Agree

  "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

  Bill James

  Justice, Police, Faults

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

  Bill James

  Real, Pensamiento, Interesante

  "Writer Bill James". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Intentemos encontrar diez cosas buenas que decir sobre Albert Belle:
  10. Que sepamos, nunca ha matado a nadie.
  9. Es guapo y tiene la constitución de un Dios.
  8. Ha jugado todos los partidos.
  7. Nunca ha aparecido en el programa de Jerry Springer.
  6. Era un corredor de bases infravalorado al que rara vez pillaban robando.
  5. No ha sido arrestado en varios años.
  4. Es muy inteligente.
  3. Trabaja mucho.
  2. Nunca ha hablado favorablemente de Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein o cualquier otro loco extranjero.
  1. El hombre sabía pegar.

  Bill James

  Hard Work, Men, Years

  Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”

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• I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

  Bill James

  Baseball, Mind, My Family

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• 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.

  Bill James

  Feet, Pockets, Rope

  "The Professor of Baseball" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

  Bill James

  Creer, Ojo, Gente

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• I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

  Bill James

  Comunicación, Escritura, Personas

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• The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

  Bill James

  Struggle, Race, Long

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• 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.

  Bill James

  Stress, Drug, Proud

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

  Bill James

  Sports, League, Psychology

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• It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

  Bill James

  People, Trials, Radio

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• Las historias de crímenes famosos casi siempre conducen a la aprobación de nuevas leyes. Hay muchísimas intersecciones entre este indecoroso fenómeno sensacionalista y cuestiones sociales serias, y nunca llegamos a esa intersección porque a la gente seria no le gusta hablar de esas cosas tan poco atractivas.

  Bill James

  Law, Issues, People

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• El hecho es que todo el mundo alrededor de un partido de baloncesto universitario -los entrenadores, los locutores, incluso los árbitros de un nivel inferior- calcula cuándo ha terminado realmente el partido. Lo calculan con intuición y conjeturas.

  Bill James

  Inspiración, Baloncesto, Universidad

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