I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. Bill James Read Quote
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don’t feel any shame over it. It’s only the opinion-makers and the ‘opinion elites’ who turn up their noses. Bill James Read Quote
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it’s reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. Bill James Read Quote
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed. Bill James Read Quote
Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn’t have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities… just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think. Bill James Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Baseball does become slow sometimes. It’s totally unnecessary. The – you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about. Bill James Read Quote
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you – period. Bill James Read Quote
