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

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

Bill James

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“Be flexible be nuanced. It's important to open yourself up to new opportunities and experiences and not be afraid to take risks.”
“Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.”
“I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.”
“Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“I don't want to come over all po-faced, because ultimately Sherlock is just entertainment, but if I can, I want to try to set a good example.”
“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”
“I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.”
“Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature”

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