American - Writer | January 13, 1978 -
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
Nate Silver
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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