When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.
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Steven Zaillian
Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for Awakenings, Gangs of New York and Moneyball. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. 2Personal life Zaillian was born in Fresno, California, the son of Jim Zaillian, a radio news reporter. He is of Armenian descent. He attended Sonoma State University, graduated from San Francisco State University in 1975 with a degree in Cinema. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Elizabeth and their two childre
How can you not get romantic about baseball?
You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, Chavy. I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.
We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.
Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death? Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?
For forty-one million, you built a playoff team. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena and you won more games without them than you did with them. You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent one point four million per win and you paid two hundred and sixty…
People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.
It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.
Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.
Baseball thinking is midevil. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say anything I get ostrisized. I'm a lepper.
Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.
There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.
It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.
Survival in here is all about your alliances.
It’s like having a nuclear arsenal. You don’t want to use it, but if the other side knows you got it, they tend to come to the table sooner.