Bill James Quotes

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
Bill James

Wrong, Proud, Capable

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Bill James

Computers, Tell

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
Bill James

Until, Happened, Crime

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
Bill James

Try, Keep, Show

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
Bill James

Different, Eyes

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
Bill James

Famous, Almost, Crime

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
Bill James

Knowing, Questions, Answers

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
Bill James

Sports, Understand

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
Bill James

Down, Small, Try

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
Bill James

Important, Become, Story

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Bill James

Society, Free, Easy

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
Bill James

Justice, Law, Brought

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
Bill James

Miracles, Medicine, Charge

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
Bill James

Emotional, Worst, Stories

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
Bill James

Real, Violence, Full

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Bill James

Business, Justice, Police

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
Bill James

Struggle, Long, Human

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
Bill James

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
Bill James

Job, Moment, Off

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Bill James

Read, Books, Lifetime

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

Lose, Few, Stealing

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
Bill James

Small, Kid, Newspapers

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
Bill James

Period, Agree, Disagree

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
Bill James

Winning, Defeat, Close

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
Bill James

Baseball, Mean, Changes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 5, 1949

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