Barry Zito
Barry Zito
Barry William Zitois an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants. His pitching repertoire consisted of a curveball, a four-seam fastball, a two-seam fastball, a circle changeup, and a cutter–slider...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth13 May 1978
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
blocks bus cleveland five stop streets walking
We're having the bus stop five blocks away from the hotel, too. So they'll be walking the streets of Cleveland all pimped out.
writing
I just write mechanical things.
kids school high-school
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
successful people guy
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
running ocean years
There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.
running giving-up cocky
I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.
kids veteran stills
I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
hands i-can my-friends
I can count my friends on one hand.
intuition would-be able
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
bullying gay organization
We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
athlete rapper people
I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
thinking people care
I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.
breaks dugout entire figured fired league losing major normally obviously stop teams threw time today yelling
They were getting the breaks we were getting in our streak. I figured they weren't getting breaks like that. ... When you have that kind of losing streak, you really stop caring. They were doing things today that normally major league teams don't do, like every time I threw to first their entire dugout was yelling 'Back!' They obviously were fired up.
traded
Personally, I don't think I'm going to get traded this year,