“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
“Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
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