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

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

Nothing, Baseball, Play

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

Baseball, Place, Team

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
Bill James

Time, Home, Mean

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 shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
Bill James

Knowledge, Decisions, Talk

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

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
Bill James

Baseball, Same, Reason

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

Famous, Almost, Crime

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
Bill James

Family, Time, Mind

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 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

Opinion, Turn, Crime

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

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

Sports, Children, Through

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
Bill James

Him, Ignore, Chance

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.
Bill James

Start, Talking, Party

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

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
Bill James

Before, Fair, Facts

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
Bill James

Game, Saying, Football

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
Bill James

Good, Society, Else

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

Justice, Law, Brought

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 5, 1949

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